“PAKI-EXPLAIN NGA,” said government propagandist Mocha Uson’s post early this week, showing the late president Ninoy Aquino being kissed by women.

Comparing the kisses on Noynoy with that of Digong in the Seoul incident, one can see the differences:

[1] The Digong kiss was coaxed, cajoled, wheedled out of a married woman. Kisses on Ninoy by two women co-passengers were spontaneous, not sought or asked for an audience.

[2] Minutes later, on Aug. 21, 1983, after those kisses, Ninoy was shot dead at the Manila airport. He could no longer talk about the kisses he got while President Rodrigo Duterte still can explain his.

An ‘upcoming sibling’

HONEYLET’S?Left out by Philippine media in most news reports of the incident during Duterte’s latest trip abroad: His daughter Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio once “cornered” him and asked whom he considered more beautiful between his first wife Elizabeth Zimmerman and his current girlfriend Honeylet Avanceña.

Duterte’s answer: He ranked his children first as “they are all beautiful” and all his women partners second, including the mother of “an upcoming sibling.”