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Wisecracks and bitter truths to ponder during campaign season

It is that crazy moment again when politicians run amok. Once they take to the microphone and see a cheering crowd, they will engage in what departed journalism guru Philip Ochieng used to call ‘verbal diarrhoea.’

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