Or merge the two: Poperah?
I’m sorry for not focusing on the men in dresses enough recently. Oprah is the doughy figurehead of a moneymaking empire that’s only been around a decade or two and hasn’t in the grand scheme of things had much of a chance to fuck things up on a grand scale.
The Catholic church has been around a lot longer and certainly has. The recent blowing up of the Irish children’s home scandal has highlighted the rank hyprocrisy of the men in fancy frocks. The Times has a rather deapan, but spot-on, headline: Archbishop of Westminster attacks atheism but says nothing on child abuse. PZ is slightly less deadpan but no less scathing: Men in fancy hats set their priorities. This cess pit needs to change.
The Catholic church is also shortchanging the Spanish people by some 6 billion Euros a year. Love it.
And finally, the awesomely lovely, well, if she can fall for a gnarly short French guy there’s hope for me, Carla Bruni is also pissed off at the pope about the aforementioned AIDS in Africa thing. You go girl!
