Got this from Inquirer​.Net. It’s an email sent by a cer­tain Manuel Almario. The recent Des­per­ate House­wives inci­dent once again showed how des­per­ate (par­don the pun) we are for respect and under­stand­ing from the rest of the world. That other cory aquino–is-a-slut brouhaha on the Daily Show brought on a new onslaught of cry­ing and wail­ing and gnash­ing of teeth despite the obvi­ous fact that Com­edy Central’s The Daily Show is really just that: com­edy.
Maybe I am miss­ing some­thing here. Not protest­ing against peo­ple who call …

It seems like some­thing hap­pened in this par­tic­u­lar elec­tion. For some rea­son, we have all become wiser (or at least we have all become less apa­thetic). Or prob­a­bly wiser to the gim­ickry of our politi­cians. The Fil­ipino is really start­ing to think–probably because of a deep-seated anger at what’s hap­pen­ing to us, or prob­a­bly because everyone’s tired of being vic­tim­ized by the pol­i­tics of per­son­al­i­ties.
I saw it com­ing when Manny Pac­quiao started cam­paign­ing for Lito Lapid in Makati. Being a Makati res­i­dent myself, I was afraid peo­ple would buy the …