Posts Tagged ‘Politics and Society

The last taboo – martial law. It’s quite ironic that even with the whole Cory and EDSA I nostalgia earlier in the year that martial law is once again part of the Filipino consciousness. Maguindano might be far from [...]

It’s so easy to make judgments when your in the outside looking in. Going by Bentham’s Panopticon, positioning oneself in a location where you can view people inside a confined space without them seeing you gives you a sense of omniscience. There is sense in stepping back and trying to look not only at the [...]

The first time I caught wind of “Ako Mismo,” I first thought of Sir Martin, since, as far as my realm of consciousness is concerned, AKOMISMO is Martin. I thought that he has started a big time advocacy group and was about to check it out, and congratulate him. Unfortunately, a rather cheesy splash page [...]

One of the things that I would enjoy living in a place where I’m practically near the places I frequent is that I would now rarely see politicians (or their relatives, paƱeros, and their posse) on the road. They surely are one of my most hated sights in the metro.
I used to drive on Commonwealth [...]

Oh come on, Mr. MMDA Chairman. You know what happens on these streets. I’d have to applaud Mayor Binay for pointing this out for everyone. I have seen those anti-Cory posters along Commonwealth and I wondered how they came to be. I rarely get the opportunity to take snapshots of these since I usually drive [...]


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