From the monthly archives: August 2010
Now I know that the Miss Universe pageant passes by nowadays without causing much of a blip on most American folks’ radar, but those of us who are Filipino or half Filipino or married to a Filipino watch it and root for Miss Philippines to overcome the odds and become a sort of Manny Pacquiao […]
Few Americans are aware that there was a Philippine-American War that grew out of the 1898 Spanish American War, and which quickly deteriorated into a nasty guerilla conflict that presaged what would happen in Vietnam 60 years later. Fewer still know that an issue that stirred debate in America during that war was the use […]
I just came across the story of Freedom, a bald eagle, and Jeff, a cancer survivor. I checked it out on Snopes because it’s the kind of thing that is so fantastic it might be the stuff of urban legend — but it’s not myth, it’s true — the story of an extraordinary friendship between […]
