Here Comes the Pope

When an evil man like the Nazi currently occupying the Papacy comes calling, the first impulse is to hide the spoons.  The second is to wonder why--Oh right, it's all about money, isn't it? America is the Whore of Rome's big Cash Cow.  You forget how a thing like that could be, with Little Bush's determined rapine of the middle classes, the sinking dollar, the general vast besmirching and discrediting of Amerika that's gone on in the almost-a-decade since the neo-cons took charge. But one in three of us is raised Catholic; one in four still keeps the faith of their fathers--that's still about as many Catholics, over-all, here as there are in Europe.  So Cash Cow milking-time it is (Plainly, hiding the spoons is a good idea).  

Meantime, that monster of plutocratic, CIA-backed corruption, Silvio Berlusconi, is about to win general elections in Italy (again!).  I doubt that it's a coincidence (Berlusconi's victory and the Pope's visit, I mean).  Funny-odd and funny-haha (continuing to read about us Transcendentalists) is Margaret Fuller's watching Pius IX turn into the Beast whose Svizzeri would go on to sack Perugia.  I don't know if she was thinking "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd Saints!" but she might have been.