Hard at work the rest of the day, trying to write a long-simmering article; the morning was mostly spent with Izzy on the last day of her swimming lessons.
The new clip-on sunglasses I bought last week makes me see things: circular sun dapples on the rear windows of cars, ghostly venetian-blind stripes on windows.
This has been going around for a while now: it smells bogus, but I like the idea of the Pope gearing up for battle against the Antichrist.
And here's something of an antidote to the disgusting Reagan hagiography, from the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
The billions of pesos stolen; the thousands of people dead and maimed; the lives crushed and wasted; the ideals ground in the dust: all these are factors in the delicate democracy we are still so hard pressed to sustain. Ronald Wilson Reagan turned a blind eye to all these sufferings. As he rests in peace, this country must remember its uneasiness will long outlive the man. That he is a great man by American standards only goes to show how different American ideals can be from what should be our own.Comments? Posted by the wily filipino at June 8, 2004 10:03 PM