Editorial: The Inkling

I think the soup is stale. It is the same one – frozen leftovers from previous swearing-in ceremonies. I am up for the latest on the menu, Flied Lies – stir fried to the max.I don’t exactly know what the ingredients are, but I think they could be interesting. As far as the taste goes, who cares? The aroma and presentation – and, almost forgot, the delivery service – seem to be all that matters these days. I am hungry. Are you?Palau has been fed, at least according to many political food critics, raw lies – black and white – and yet, it has not been satiated and keeps yearning for more. Her people have eaten everything from pounded taro (“belsiich”) to “you’ll never know” and have not gained a single gram – rather they have lost color and are disoriented.The latest on the political menu – Flied Lies – is rather expensive.Its main ingredients, according to political connoisseurs, are bundles of greens, handful of “shrimps,” spiked “saw you” sauce, “nice” cream, and “just mean” rice.It is said that it only takes a lot of air to cook up the dish, but four years of aging in order for it attain its full taste.A few – maybe more – of us, have tasted the dish. Some say it’s wonderful. Others are not sure of what to make of it.I have eaten just about everything on the political menu – the sweets are great, but the bitterness endures. Despite starvation, I opt to wait a while.It is said that fried rice will taste good depending on the amount of noise produced as the cook works the wok. I think then that the flied lies is likely to taste wonderful – if the cook “walks the talk.”I can see smoke coming out of the political restaurants. The customers are lining up. Phones are ringing and orders have been placed.Advertisements have been posted everywhere. Discounts are not guaranteed.Flied lies is the “talk of the town” – on radio, television, newspapers, and even on the worldwide web. Foreigners have shown interests and concerns and so must you.Listen carefully before ordering. If you hear a buzz, get the fly swatter – you are not a frog!