All Intensive Purposes

Murky Thoughts (incidentally, another blog with an excellent aesthetic sensibility) asks, "Did the Pope have a soul and where is it now?"

I mean, wasn't the official statement of the Catholic Church in Poland upon the death of John Paul II something to the effect that he'd devoted himself to the message of "eternal life"? What a scandal if it turns out that the man is simply dead! Talk about dereliction of journalistic duty: How about a little investigation and fact checking here guys?

I think the problem is that the journalists aren't willing to do what's necessary to follow this story -- they just don't want to go there. It seems to me that this situation calls for a sort of thematic sequel to Little Buddha and/or The Matrix, with Keanu playing John Paul II.



Or not, but that last bit was fun to write.