current and not-so-current events...

Roco died
Raul Roco stood for something that the Philippines as a country is (or should be?) aspiring to attain - a democracy that esteems erudition, sincerity, and competence. His death is not exactly a surprise since he had been battling cancer ever since the elections. Still, his demise represents a death of sorts of the relevance of politics to the educated people. Can we still believe in our government officials and still be sane? One curious thing though, a little more than a year after the elections, two of the six presidential aspirants are dead. Who's next? Ping Lacson? Just wishful thinking... Hope Eddie Gil be spared. He still is funny, to me at least.

Banco de Oro buys into Equitable-PCI
The Sy group buys approximately 25% of the Equitable-PCI shares from the Go's who have been directed by the Supreme Court to essentially shut up. I guess we can see Banco de Oro as the third, if not the second largest bank in the country in three? five years?

Michaelangelo Zuce, Richard Garcia, and other carnival performers
The Fattest Man (Zuce) continues to relish his 15 milliseconds of fame while the Amazing Rubber Man (Garcia) quickly recoils into amazing positions recanting virtually everything he has said, and implicating the carnival managers (the United[?] Opposition) into bribing coatturners.
Seriously? Who is stupid enough to actually think you people have credibility? Even if I were a protostome, I still would have seen that you are all a bunch of sour grapes and dumb a**es - Dy, Cam, Lacson...

Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
The horror of the nuclear weapon can never be dowplayed. Six decades later, people are still getting radiation sickness in select areas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Americans, notably WWII veterans, believe that they owe the end of the Pacific War Front to Little Boy and Fat Man but was it really necessary? I can never guess what the Japanese would have done had it been otherwise, but the victory of the Allies is dearly bought. The saddest part is that it is not the buyers who paid the heaviest costs of the war, it is the children and those who we can call the innocents, those who were born after the attacks that felt the damage in the form of bleeding noses, congenital defects, and other symptoms of radiation sickness.