This guy doesn’t look Filipino, but he is, isn’t he?

He keeps pronouncing the word Philippines as ‘af-ri-kuh’ but he is talking about the Philippines, no?

The characterization of a “hippo caribou stuck in an intellectual patch” rings all too true here.

You ask them to reform the economy? They’re not going to reform it. Because they benefit from the rotten status quo.

My guess is that there are have been numerous Filipino versions of George Ayittey over the past fifteen or so years. And they’ve all been shot.

Helping the Philippines is noble. But helping the Philippines has been turned into a theater of the absurd.

Something has gone fundamentally wrong. You know it. I know it.