Tag: opinion
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Reasoning Isn’t Enough. Many WANT a Dictator.
No amount of reasoning or documented history will suffice. They just want a dictator, a strongman and ‘leader’ who does things the way he wants and to hell with the law, human rights and the lives of all they kill along the way. Shockingly they can say with a straight face the dead are all…
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Thoughts on Reading ‘My Family’s Slave’
Some thoughts on reading Mr. Alex Tizon’s ‘My Family’s Slave‘. At my age I remember the concept of ‘giving’ children away to other people as either ‘gifts’, as a way to pay debt or as a means of saving children from difficult or impossible lives. I do not consider this uniquely Filipino. I see it…
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Trusting The Press
Randy David wrote the other day about how he noticed newspapers treated PNoy’s speech. In it he said: President Aquino’s speech at the annual presidential forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) last Oct. 27 highlighted many aspects of this strained relationship. In that speech, Mr. Aquino chose to dwell on his observations…
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Opinion re Cable TV
After the recent re-installation of Cable TV in our household, I have come to the ff. conclusions: It is for the most part, a monstrous waste of time – Once you turn the TV on, you will inevitably find something interesting to watch. For example, I happened onto a 60 Minutes feature on the FBI…
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Google’s Microsoftian Approach to Apps
Taking a very quick break to write thoughts about Google Apps. Quick as in Photoshop and my power editor are still open, so I’m writing this midstream into my work. I wanna write it down because surely I’ll forget. Anyway I stumbled onto this Ars Technica Article re Google Apps, a thrust by Google to…
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Pacquiao Fearless Forecast plus Other Thoughts
I’ve been scouring the Internet for the past hour trying to find a streaming live video, audio or otherwise any whatever sort of livecast to no avail. I’ve found a few but they aren’t free, and their amateurish looking sites don’t look very reassuring, so no go. Jill’s household usually buys into whatever Sky offers…