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Other sad news this week is that Peter Jennings has lung cancer. Like Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and others in this information age Peter Jennings is almost a member of the family, and so I wish him a speedy recovery. Get well, Peter! You are too young to die! We all love you very much and we don't want to lose you!

JPII, on the other hand, died not a moment too soon. In fact his death was years too late. He lingered almost obscenely. They say he considered resigning as pope in 2000 but decided against it. Too bad. It was a bad decision. But instead of resigning he preferred to present himself to us in obscenia, as an example of 'Christly Suffering.' We went along with the scam.
What else could we do? He was the fucking pope!

We would have preferred him to 'fade away' while a new pope took steps to bring the Catholic Church into the nineteenth century. But he chose to linger in full view. Too bad. Ugly.