“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
And so the loyal weaver who cloaked his Empress in legalisms played the precocious boy who could see through pretense. …

The inaugural speech of PNoy to Congress was awaited with great anticipation. He came, he spoke, but did he deliver?

SOUND AND FURY OF PRESIDENT AQUINO’S SONA
(Counter-SONA Speech delivered by Minority Leader
Edcel C. Lagman on 27 July 2010 at the House of Representatives)
Mr. Speaker and distinguished colleagues:
The Minority in this House has publicly declared that …