Shakespeare on drunkards

A certain actress went on a slapping spree after she got dead drunk. Have you heard it said that a drunkard's joy is the sober man's woe?

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Of drunkards William Shakespeare said: "O God. That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains."

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Someone asked if it's not a human rights violation to deprive commercial sex workers of their source of livelihood. Our commercial sex workers are not asking too much. It's OK with them for us to give them their daily bed.

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That was quite an attack Senator Miriam unleashed against her fellow honorable Senator Johnny Ponce Enrile. Every time a bomb was dropped, I winced, saying ugh!

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But I noticed Senator JPE didn't look hurt. He continued to play games on his iPad Mini. Believe ko tokayo Johnny oy. I noticed while Senator Miriam was busy hitting him Senator Johnny was also busy playing on his iPad and smiling.

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Of all the plethora of accusations against JPE the most painful perhaps was not her calling him "sexual addict" but her reference to him as "tanda" or old man.

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Leyteños and Samareños have a joint message for Yolanda: "You destroyed our cities and towns but you failed to wreck our spirit."

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Manila Mayor Erap has been reported as allowing sidewalk vendors during the day. Because he says he is encouraging the night market at daytime.

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It says here that more dead bodies have been found in Tacloban. Some were floating at sea, others were hanging from the branches of bakhawan trees in the swamps.

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It seems that the funeral parlors are no longer interested in the late comers (I mean the dead bodies). "Enough is enough we're already fully booked," they're probably saying.

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OVERHEARD: People attending a wedding reception were noisy about Sen. Miriam Santiago's tirade against Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. When a radio reporter with a mike in hand came and asked them about their take on Santiago's speech, everyone said: "No comment" and "wa koy ikasulti. "But someone said: "Usik-usik ra sa kuryente....Ihapa pila ka bombilya ang mosiga atol sa sesyon...Ipha tagpila ron ang kuryente sa Meralco."