EDSA: Resurrecting a dead old horse and dying on it

COMMEMORATING the anniversary of the 1986 EDSA uprising is as much as de rigueur, albeit an obligation in the name of, well, democracy, as it is a chore that one has the option to mark on the calendar or get over with until the next merry-making or tribute-giving comes along.

Worse, it is also as much as an occasion to resurrect a dead horse and die on it as it is a time to bash the supposedly despotic family that had caused such political ruckus to come to pass in the first place.