I WAS busy yesterday and did not have time to sit through nine hours of former president Rodrigo Duterte's appearance before the quad committee of the House of Representatives. They are a more vile lot than the ones he faced at the Senate, where only Sen. Risa Hontiveros bared her fangs at the foul-mouthed ex-president. I watched around an hour's worth of footage on YouTube, and boy, that was the best show in town that day.
He was not a stupid lawyer. He claimed to have gotten a grade of 70 in many of his subjects in law school, mainly "because I kept on getting into fights with other students," he said in one interview. He also received a similar grade at the bar exams. But 70 is a passing grade and something not to be sneezed at, considering how difficult law school and the bar exams are.
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