The short but happy political life of Mr. Eddie Gil
The Manila Times reports that the Supreme Court has terminated the presidential aspirations of self-proclaimed billionaire Eddie Gil, the presidential candidate with the concrete platform of paying off the national debt out of his own pocket. The SC cited Gil's incapacity to wage a nationwide campaign.

Informed of the adverse decision of the SC, the irrepressible Eddie Gil, whom I know many people have come to love, promptly called for the justices to be hanged.

We will sorely miss Eddie Gil, whose wry humor was so effortless it would have been a travesty for Malacanang to have him as the resident jester. Now that the presidency has been cruelly denied him by the snooty justices, Eddie Gil should probably scout for vacancies in any of the ABS-CBN's sitcoms. Who knows, time may come when he too would win the favor of the Lopezes, and follow in the path trailblazed by Loren Legarda and Noli de Castro.