IT’S “whipping a dead horse,” says Miriam Defensor-Santiago, despite signing the Senate call to impeach GMA. “Congress will be taken up with the budget hearings and our conference committees, and it will be the start of the campaign period. [Besides, GMA] is stepping out of office.”
Not that you are likely to read this, though it can’t hurt to read something a little more intelligent than the usual crap given you that passes for intelligence. I write to reiterate some of the points I made in a previous letter I wrote your boss a couple of months ago.
EVERY ELECTION, it's customary, obligatory even, for presidential candidates to accuse one another of not having platforms. The dejados in particular, to suggest the frontrunners lack depth.
ONE is tempted to say Manny Pacquiao can do without any additional pressure put on his shoulders. And to say that landing on the cover of Time is a pressure is like saying Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a minor irritation. It is huge.
I REMEMBER the Oscars awards held early this year. As a result of the recession, the affair scaled down the glam and glitter. In lieu of a regular emcee, the awards had Hugh Jackman singing—and dancing—the introductions.
MANNY VILLAR HAD SOME INTERESTING things to say last week at the Manila Overseas Press Club. “I’m not perfect. But when you look at me, you are looking at Manny Villar, what you see is what you get. You’re not looking at my mother, my father or the tycoon behind me.”
This year has been a milestone, or millstone, all around. It’s the year many people I know died. Some too young to die, like Alecks Pabico of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism who was only 42 when he went last month.
