Now that the 2013 elections are safely in the bag for the Aquino Administration and its expanded base of legislative catamites have been officially installed in office, it appears that the government now feels secure in discarding its last few remaining shreds of “anti-corruption” pretense. We could hope that two news items that popped up this week are not a sign of things to come for the second semester of the Aquino Era v2.0, but the official responses to them so far— offhand dismissal in the first case, and utter silence in the other —suggests that hope is probably as vain as it ever has been.