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The Philippines: An enduring grotesqueness

August 5, 2008 · Filed Under National News, Politics, Society · · 10 Comments 

You too can profit from Pinoy dysfunction!

August 1, 2008 · Filed Under Politics, Society · · 4 Comments 

Our world-renowned ocho-ocho politics

July 31, 2008 · Filed Under National News, Politics, Society · · 21 Comments 

The Republic of Corluviminbangsavia

July 28, 2008 · Filed Under Politics, Society · · 17 Comments 

What are our rights to something acquired under illegal circumstances?

July 25, 2008 · Filed Under National News, Society · · 81 Comments 

Take up the 30-word challenge!

July 24, 2008 · Filed Under Lifestyle, Science & Technology, Society · · 28 Comments 

Waiting for the ‘perfect’ president

July 17, 2008 · Filed Under Business and Economy, Society · · 36 Comments 

A collective inability to harvest INSIGHT from our own history

July 16, 2008 · Filed Under National News, Politics, Society · · 3 Comments 

Our culture of bullshit and the need to preach to the unconverted

July 14, 2008 · Filed Under National News, Society · · 6 Comments 

Manila: Jewel of the orient - before Pinoys took over, that is

July 7, 2008 · Filed Under Lifestyle · · 5 Comments 

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