Some people have too much time on their hands.

I tried cleaning out my spam-swamped email account a while ago. I love the bulk section. Just one click and --whee!-- everything flushes down the virtual toilet. I sometimes look through it though, just for kicks, and the material it has is so NUTTY, it's awesome! It's random! It's fantastic! Most of it doesn't make sense, but it sounds smart, hahaha.

Here are some email subjects I got. Sometimes they're sentences...

-The desire to have children is a barrier to protection
-Asbjorn Lonvig for sale
-One in every ten people in the world live on an island (come to think of it-- hey! I live on an island!)
-We are in Iraq as Iraqi doctors and union, building a union
-In the UK, News Corp has more unique visitors each month than Expedia

Sometimes, they're just wonderfully random words...

evocative gigantic
stint than conversant
italicize consumption
wiretap offspring
approachable misogyny
demotion merriment
weed (haha, anlabo)
tatty than trio

It's tatty, and it's more than a trio (although 'approachable misogyny' looks sensible enough). Where they come from, I don't know; the senders' names never repeat themselves. I think it's one of those email+name+gibberish generators, but what purpose it serves, I don't know. At least none of them have suspicious attachments. A bit of it is uncomfortably infiltrating my inbox, but deleting is quick, so no worries about being flooded there.
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Raul Gonzales has run off with his famous mouth again. After blaming Campbell for being stupid and uncareful and likely to be killed with the way she was acting (damn, she's dead, okay? Why would you say such a thing???), he now offers P10,000 to every barangay captain who could make 12-0 (in favor of Team Unity) possible.

How dare he.

HOW DARE HE.

The insolence of that man is just... appalling. And he has the balls NOT to call it vote-buying. Peter Cayetano immediately commented against this action, which Gonzales waved aside, saying that Cayetano had a wild imagination.

It is not vote buying because it is just a promise. There is no real action yet, therefore there is no violation. I heard someone on TV say that.

But even if it "wasn't", technically speaking, vote buying, this action is encouraging people to do exactly that. And why wait for a "real" violation to happen?! Why argue on the technicalities? You can call it anything you want, but it all boils down to this: it's a bribe for your votes. You can't call it anything more indignified than that.