The dead air has honestly been for lack of news, and I’ve gotten to the point in blogging I hate just producing useless filler (you know, like this post). There’s way too much of that out there, and it wastes your time and mine. Speaking of the Pope visit, as anyone with half a brain could have predicted, turnout was way lower than expected, and there are businesses that lost a lot of money. Restaurants were told to expect to be very busy, probably figuring a communion wafer is hardly even a light afternoon snack. But the crowd disappeared as soon as Frances did. Now the finger pointing begins! I was out in the Harrisburg area this weekend, partaking in the grand tradition of my Huguenot ancestors: running away from Catholics. Even out there, the signs were flashing advisories that might as well have said, “Danger! Pope Visiting Philadelphia!”, like Godzilla had come ashore and was heading inland. Nonetheless, the light turnout didn’t prevent the Secret Service from turning security into a mess.
The Onion had some commentary on the visit here, and here. That’s funny right there. I don’t care who you are.
Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have non-pope news. It’s been quiet, almost too quiet on the gun front. Every time I worry about a sagging news cycle, I’m reminded that December 2012 was also a sagging news cycle, and I’ve learned to be careful about complaining about a lack of news.
Useless filler wouldn’t make me laugh out loud nearly as much. :D
Don’t feel bad: you’ve never resorted to an “X things you wouldn’t believe are Y” post in all these years.
I wonder, if Philly had more than a one-party system, if people could have prevented the martial law that smothered the area over the weekend.
As to the second Onion piece, it’s sacrilegious; clever, but still sacrilege:
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/the-real-presence