pinteresque

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. All that famous rationality of yours is swimming about in waste disposal turdology. It's burping and farting away in the cesspit for ever and ever. That's destiny speaking, sweetheart! That was always the destiny of your famous rational intelligence, to choke to death in sour cream and pigswill.

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I asked him what it was. But of course there was no way he was going to answer the question. You know why? Because referees are not obliged to answer questions. Referees are the law. They are law in action. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's Justice.

- character Andy in Harold Pinter's Moonlight

Playwright Harold Pinter died on december 24, 2008

i am sorry

in the book launch of former house speaker jose de venecia, cory asked for forgiveness from former president joseph estrada. this concerns her campaign to unseat erap. it was an uncanny sight--former top officials of the land hobnobbing with consistent oppositors of the government now that almost all of them are against the queen (their alliance will isolate gma further and, dreadfully for them, will plunge the present ruling class into a state of irrecoverable damage), comparable to juan ponce enrile's taking of the senate president oath with gringo honasan.

many things have been said but i offer this brief statement of bayan muna representative satur ocampo: "from a historical perspective, edsa was an apt popular response to the turn of events in the senate impeachment proceedings versus estrada. the future, not the present events, will show whether edsa ii was correct or not." (philippine daily inquirer a6, 24 december 2008).

--> a case of political opportunism? partisanship based on hideous commitment? or a supposition of futurity? the work of time points to a calculated end, that what we do know is for the coming times. do we commit mistakes, errors? the tense of the future will determine whether we are right or wrong. it is our struggle for the future that confers meaning on the turn of present events. pardon her? yes, for believing in gma. no, for buying back erap. is edsa 2 a failure because a more corrupt and more brutal regime is in power? salud algabre says "no uprising fails; each one is a step towards the right direction".

happy new year!