No Christmas bonus when Uncle Jovy Salonga was Senate Prez. For our hard­working rank-and-file, something modest, and, as Ethics panel chief, I had to ask the foolish question of the day: what legal basis? My own staff was deluged with calls telling me where to go—the gates of hell—till my people had to say “sorry, wrong number.” JPE had his Christmas palambing, but it seems the Senators were not given an equal share of the loot so the larceny was exposed by the discriminated against. Lesson for the next Senate Prez: be an equal opportunity Boss in thievery. JPE, TY and good-bye as Senate Prez.

The other morning, I fell off my chair when I read Jake Macasaet’s saying in Business Insight (page A3, col. 1) that Joker and I worked with Peping Cojuangco to set term limits.

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