10 Things I'd Like To See In My Lifetime

1. A car that can run on crap, or something as commonplace as water. Don't expect the Americans to come up with this breakthrough. The many interlocking vested interests (oil, the automobile industry, the financial interests, to name a few) will ensure this. Some enterprising Chinese will be responsible for this. Knowing the Chinese, they'll even come up with ridiculously cheaper crap and water. So what if it's laced with lead ?

2. George W. Bush saying, "I'm sorry, I was mistaken". He is so dead sure about a lot of things. He's also dead wrong.

3. An avowed atheist running for office -- and winning !!! In the Philippines, to boot !!!

4. A member of a losing basketball, football or baseball team saying, "Fuck Jesus, man, he was tanking tonight."

5. A member of a winning basketball, football or baseball team acknowledging his mistress' support instead of his wife's.

6. The Roman Catholic hierarchy finally coming to its senses and allowing priests to marry. Maybe, just maybe, we'll see less molestation of young kids. And think of the billions saved in settlement money. Maybe with all the money saved, the Church can finally do something concrete to actually fight poverty, instead of talking the problem to death.

7. Harvard Business School extolling the Roman Catholic Church as the best business model ever conceived by man. Just imagine: no taxes, no salaries to pay, no employee retirement benefits to fund, all organizational expansion costs shouldered by the customers. Can you beat that ?

8. An American president named Chang or Rodriguez.

9. A Chinese president named Billy Bob Renfro. Let's see the Chinese try to pronounce that!

10. And finally, Bishop Socrates Villegas varying his homily at weddings he officiates. I've been to 3 weddings he solemnized at the chapel in the Manila Archbishop's Palace. Each time, he started with the words, " (Name of Groom), (Name of Bride), today I have mixed feelings of happiness and dread. Happiness for this celebration of your love, and dread that this may not last", or some variation thereof. One would think that with the money one pays to have a wedding at this venue, the officiating priest would endeavor to give one his money's worth. Not a rehash of some other homily he gave in the past.