THE great Mao Tse Tung had a most uncanny, albeit funny while being ingenious and apt, description of revolution. It is more lucid and graphic when put in Tagalog: “Ang rebolusyon ay parang utot. Hindi maiiwasang sumingaw at umalingasaw. (A revolution is like foul air through the anus. It cannot be stopped and it stinks.)”

Quite in contrast to how the farting Duterte’s touted victory in the just-concluded presidential elections nauseatingly smells, yesterday’s Manila Times editorial is a welcome breather. It recognizes that there has been grave anomaly in the conduct of those elections and makes no bone about putting serious question on its results.

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