After being notified of a movement that has started in the grass roots, but has spread like wildfire from there, a question has come to my mind. I am asking myself – Is it possible to be President of the United States while living outside the country? Check this video: I mean, if my country […]
How Much Government Is Enough Government?
I was casting about thinking over several things I might write about this morning when my friend Bob kind of made my decision for me. Bob wrote a post about the advantages of free market versus government managed economy and some of the comments he received absolutely blew me away. I’m a bit older rhan […]
Transportation fares
With the rising cost of fuel, you can well imagine that the prices of transportation here in the Philippines have gone up. Whether it be taxis, jeepneys, buses, whatever the mode of transportation, the fares are increasing. These fare increases, though, have made me a little curious. Every time that a jeepney operator wants to […]
Safety for females
Last week, I got an e-mail from a long-time reader of this site. I won’t give her name because I’m not sure she wants me to do that, but I will give a little information about her anonymously. For the sake of this column, let’s say that her name is Penny. Among my readers, Penny […]
Loss of face
One area where you’ll find a huge difference between the Philippines and Western countries is in the way people deal with each other. In the West, we pretty much say what’s on our mind. If there’s something we don’t like, we say what we don’t like. Here in the Philippines, and pretty much throughout Asia, […]
Your Altitude Determines Your Attitude
Hmm, don’t you have that headline wrong, Dave? I’ve seen that saying a dozen times or more in motivational literate and it always seemed to read, “Your attitude determines your altitude”. Well, yes, that is likely the most usual way it is used, but here in the Philippines a lot of things we ‘know’ from […]