The Land of the Living Dead

Dear Mouse,

Quote of the Week

"The Senate is "the land of the living dead." -Miriam Santiago.

From Inquirer:

"You can also view it as a state-of-the-art cryogenic facility in the sense that most senators lie there preserved in ice," she said deadpan. "There are no stimuli as far as they are concerned, and of course, there are no responses."

Commenting on her own remarks, Santiago pointed out that there was "no prohibition on criticism of the Senate's political culture or its procedures."

"What is prohibited is to diminish the Senate as an institution," she said.

She can see living dead and I can see dead people.

As my grandmother would say, Be afraid of the living and not of the dead.

Let's welcome the brilliant jester in the Senate, Brenda Santiago.

The Cat