LIPSTICK. When it was reported that the education secretary called for donation of lipsticks for public school teachers in Tacloban, some observers laughed. Someone from the broadcast media called the secretary: "A joker amid disaster."
NOT FUNNY. "This is not a laughing matter or something funny," a psychiatrist said of the secretary's off-the-cuff suggestion. "The lipstick has a psychological affect against the traumatic feeling the disaster might have on the scared teachers." She said the lipstick could give the "depressed typhoon victims" the chance at "self-regrooming" whatever that means."