There's hardly ever anyone else

If something's wrong on EDSA, it will show in nanoseconds.

It did, yet again, before midnight and until the wee hours of the morn. We know it's only EDSA Guadalupe, but if any part of EDSA gets choked up "in aid of destabilization," all the other side-streets of this precarious archipelagic morass get automatically snarled up bumpERR-to-bumpERR style.

So it turns out there's a new witness of "nuclear," cataclysmic proportions. That man Ong was just so everywhere - on the nightly news on TV, in YM exchanges while watching the nightly breaking news on TV, on cable TV, in AM radio, perhaps even in FM radio, in cell phone text messages, and, of course, in the broadsheets and tabloids the morning after, and henceforth, even in your own face. Even our lovely buffet dinner at Yum-Yum Tree was soured by comments like "How come that Ong spoke only now?" (The paella and chicken galantina were still delicious, though.)

What's going on?!? And on? And on? And on? We don't like gong back to square one... yet again, but it seems like we're all going back to square one yet again.

It's not really the Filipino people that's the problem, I told G. It's the politicians, see. Then again, like someone else said, we all deserve the kind of politicians that we get.

Then, of course, there's this inevitable useless thought the morning after the-morning-after:

So we all hate PGMA. But we all concede just as well that there's hardly ever someone else.

Let's round up the possible contenders. Survey says:

Noli de Castro - Can he?
Franklin Drilon - Ewan.
Erap Estrada - Pwede ba!
FPJ - (dead)
Raul Roco - (sick)
Ed Angara - Wag na uy.
Aquilino Pimentel - Shut up!
Ping Lacson - (comment deleted)

Bleargh! Now all we have to show for Independence Day is a National Day of Mourning in the aftermath of Ong.

IMHO, PGMA shouldn't have run again, although who could possibly have won that time whom we could grudgingly like? I agree, the more serious problem now is that her son Mikey should not be in showbiz as much as Christian Bautista shouldn't be dancing. (Haha, sorry, Christian.)

Someone should have preserved Ninoy's stem cells or those of the other esteemed nationalists before him. And Jack Kevorkian should still be alive, so that any politician who wishes to undergo assisted suicide could go to the US in style and hopefully in peace. (I know, I know. It's not funny. It's not funny at all.)



(All cartoons were stolen from spams.)