Worst Of The Worst

If you saw cable news at all earlier this afternoon, you would have noticed round the clock coverage of a chimney over the Sistine chapel. All three networks were settled in to watching for smoke to come out, the signal that the cardinalic conclave has adjourned (black smoke = no new pope, white smoke = new pope). Could someone please tell me when we became an officially Catholic country.

Oh, but there was something even more depressing on tv today. And it was on C-Span. The chaplin for the US House of Representatives gave a prayer in which, and this is not a joke, he asked for God's aid and guidance in delivering Americans from the temptations of "materialism" and "moral relativism." So I'll be on suicide watch tonight.