Our family is "cable-TV-starved".  We do not have any cable TV in our home because there is no access at all.  As I have stated in a previous post, our family lives in a farm-like environment in the middle of Metro Manila.  There is no cable TV.  Not even a telephone line.

So now that I'm here in a hotel room outside of MM, I find myself voraciously consuming one of my favorite channels on cable - the History Channel.  Right now it's all about the French Revolution.  Reference is made to the extravagant lifestyle of Marie Antoinette.

Suddenly, I break out in laughter (which surprises my wife) because of a comment by William Boyle, a professor and historian from the University of Bristol.  Here's what he said:

"Marie Antoinette was the epitome of extravagance amidst the widespread hunger in the countryside.  She was the Imelda Marcos of her day."