Lipstick donations

LIPSTICK. When it was reported that the education secretary called for donation of lipsticks for public school teachers in Tacloban, some observers laughed. Someone from the broadcast media called the secretary: "A joker amid disaster."

NOT FUNNY. "This is not a laughing matter or something funny," a psychiatrist said of the secretary's off-the-cuff suggestion. "The lipstick has a psychological affect against the traumatic feeling the disaster might have on the scared teachers." She said the lipstick could give the "depressed typhoon victims" the chance at "self-regrooming" whatever that means."