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"Ayun, Oh!" Enter the Dogs of Spin

Now that some of the country's top politicians have been charged with graft, plunder and malversion raps, traditional media as well as new media is starting to feel the presence of spin doctors ready to "wag the dog." Will these dogs of spin be successful? Let's see. To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue. The expression comes from the saying that 'a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'. Digital illustration; 2013

Let It Begin

Digital illustration; 2013

Lord of the Flies

Digital illustration; 2013 “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?” As the drama of the pork scandal unfolds and the veneer of honor and respect is stripped slowly from our "leaders," we are reminded of the fact that each of us has the capacity to do evil. Are they testaments to the belief that achievement, ambition, the striving to reach the highest possible position in life -- the will to power as Friedrich Nietzsche describes it -- will ultimately triumph over innate good and moral conscience? I hope not. 

Honorable Men

Digital illustration; 2013 For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men,

Sino Pa?

At least three senators instructed government agencies to release millions of pesos from their pork barrel funds to nongovernment organizations (NGOs) belonging to the Janet Lim-Napoles group, More here.

Simula Pa Lang

Digital collage; 2013 Janet Napoles, the alleged architect of the controversial P10-billion "pork barrel" scam involving Philippine Senators, surrendered to President Benigno Aquino III at 9:37 pm on August 28, 2013. Earlier in the day, Malacanan issued a PHP 10 million peso bounty on Napoles. Timeline here. http://www.rappler.com/nation/37632-timeline-janet-lim-napoles-from-scandal-to-surrender