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Pope on a Rope

What was he thinking? He did proof-read his speech I hope. Well, in a way I hope not because it should have been obvious to anyone that now is really not a good time to piss off everyone east of Mecca with something unflattering about the marketing methods their main guy. In all fairness, it's pretty common knowledge that there's a lot of sword-play involved in saving souls too. In fact, on the time scale of the middle east (where the old testament is considered recent history), they're still avenging the crusades and if you want to talk about spreading one's religion using swords and other unpleasant techniques, you needn't look much further than those crazy Templars and their hundred-years quest to start a Christmas club in Palestine.

The Pope's only had the gig for what, less than 2 years? And he's already besmirched his jerkin with something that's definitely going on his permanent record. You can look for him on Monster.com if this thing doesn't blow over pretty soon. I wonder if he gets to keep the little red JonBenet Ramsey cowboy hat he was wearing yesterday. That was cute, wasn't it?