POPE STEALS SHIAVOS THUNDER! GOES OUT IN BLAZE OF SEPTIC SHOCK AND HEART FAILURE

And you were there for every agonizing minute, if you bothered to watch any of the cable news channels. Every 15 minutes or so, some guy with a traffic cone on his head would come up to the podium and say "still dying, but serene" or "not dead yet, but still lucid". Not even Jackos "hand jobs and jesus juice" trial could stand up to the papal onslaught. Is it newsworthy? Of course it is. Do we really need to be beaten over the head with it? At the expense of other events, like say, that commission that has a name too long to remember saying, among other things, that the WMD issue in Iraq was in essence bullshit and that the US intelligence "community" is a giant clusterfuck? I think not.
I won't miss the pope ( his popemobile, on the other hand, is an entirely different issue, if it goes to auction on ebay I am so there.) but his passing is obviously significant to a lot of people all around the world. As evidenced by CNN's coverage of every group of catholics in death vigil mode from Tittykittyspittilampur province in India to Armpit City New Jersey. This happened in between the live updates from Vatican City..."Almost dead, but still able to move his pinky in the sign of the cross".
Every self important bigshot from every concieveable area had something nice to say. Even Dick Cheney chimed in...why his head didn't erupt into flames and locusts didn't fly out of his ass, I don't know.
Maybe tomorrow.
He was pope for 27 years, and as Billy points out, was a bit old fashioned, in a 19th century sort of way. So it's time for some new blood. We had our John Paul, how about a Ringo George for a change?