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JoeAmOf Snakes and Wives
I’ve been remiss in writing here. Part of it is the distraction of building a home, where my wife is the informal general contractor and I am the chief nag and bone-picker. I don’t know when our roles got reversed, she started wearing the pants, and I got relegated to second fiddle in the fief. … Continue reading
The Vanities of the Philippines
Okay, I’ve got it. Crystal clear, thanks to a few slaps in the face on AntiPinoy.com and the brutal but perceptive views of The Judge. Here’s my blatantly unstatistical take on things, generalizations so gross that they should be used for nothing other than make you think. Filipinos come in three basic styles: (1) The … Continue reading
Would Jesus Wear a Uniform?
I was driving the National Road, as the paved highway is identified on the Biliran map, engaged in an argument with myself. As is often the case, I have no facts at my disposal so I simply concoct the different points of view in my brain. Why do Filipino public school kids wear uniforms, and … Continue reading
Chameleonic Thinking
Interesting, the spell checker did not flag “chameleonic”. I thought I was making up the word, meant to mean thinking like a chameleon. All of us have ego, eh? We are self-confident of our understandings most of the time, and our opinions flow from that confidence. If we are shown to be wrong, we tap … Continue reading
Of Chickens and Thumbs
I was watching the NBA finals when I was smacked in the face by one stark cultural difference between the US and Philippines. A few minutes prior, I had been watching the news on CNN. The news world has obsessed for two months about the Gulf Coast oil disaster, replete with pictures of oil-covered fowl … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 