I admit it: I am a ‘yahoo’. (See below= ***)

Not a typical one, but still….

Yahoo is where I go every morning before The Daily Beast or The New York Times or once in a blue moon, our Mother, Salon.

Anyone who knows me well knows I like the top…the series of juicy stories I scoff at, then return to, a respectable time later. Like, today: “Mom Stops Runaway Bus”.   There is a video playing.The heading says: “two quick thinking moms & a third grader stop a runaway bus from crashing.”  

A delightful  woman in a smart gray scarf says she saw that the driver has ‘medical issues’, and ran alongside the bus and got entry to it from  a 3^rd grader  she made ‘eye contact with’ and hit the brake. 

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 Gaining some gentility after some coffee, I scan the staid headlines.

1.  
   • Photos: French bulldog adopts wild boar piglets
   • In defiant move, Iran proclaims nuclear advances
   • Millionaire Rick Santorum benefactor says he's ready with help
   • Affirmative action: Could Justice Alito's vote change the game?
   • Whitney Houston's estate expected to get boost after death
   • Sun team probing "sustained criminality": source
   • EU receives Iran’s letter on nuclear talks
   • NATO to buy U.S.-made unmanned drone aircraft
   • Vatican paper brands leakers irresponsible "wolves"

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I am proud of the bulldog, but not of Iran.  I dunno what to make of NATO’s decision. Santorum is funny, i  like his boyish antics. I am glad Whitney's dear precious loved ones gonna profit. Affirmative action is fine with me..but..hmmmmmmmm.....

Something juicy is going on with the Vatican, so I punch it up. 

Hm. I love bad news about the Catholics, for some perverse reason,as all my relatives and friends are, well, practicing or angry ex- , Catholics. Odd for a boy raised in a religious vacuum by parents once mixed up with the Congregational Church.

(When they kicked off, we did the proper thing and had a church burial…the minister had curly hair and a nice smile & a ‘what the fuck ever’ attitude , which I appreciate in a religious man).

Corruption & nepotism & financial no nos.

("Someone shut this viper up, hah?" )

Ha.

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I wrote the new, real, living Pope a letter a few days ago,but have not gotten a response.

“Benedict,

Your family & mine come from the same part of the ‘Fatherland’, Germany.Here is a picture of my good old Pop; don't mess with him. My Dad can beat up yours...

("was ist los mit dir?"...dad)

 You are the first German pope in centuries, and I enjoy your little shows on the Religious Channel because 1. You look and sound just like my long dead Grandpa, and 2.to hear German is music to my ears , even a German accent..

So this is why I tentatively support your Popery. Popedom. Whatever. But I have issues with your policies.

Contraception seems like a thing maybe God the Father or Holy ghost or Son, put into our heads as an evolving species, so we won’t totally overcrowd the Earth. And have to go to Mars. Or one of Jupiter’s moons. If that is your game, to colonize Mars, then I have to call you on it. It is inhospitable to life, and would require a lot of science and physics to ‘terra form’ .  Your organization is rather iffy on science. You only recently accepted evolution, which I applaud you for, but now you are muddying the waters , or someone is…the damn Fundamentalist Protestants?...with this intelligent design bullshit.

 A lot of kids are going hungry here in America due to lack of breakfast cuz their moms are so busy that they shove them out the door with a granola  bar to the bus , where an unhealthy driver  , maybe an old guy , maybe a diabetic, I dunno, takes these kids to school . They are not required to wear seatbelts ,and there are no airbags , which I find odd.

Thank the Father/Son/Holy Ghost(Spirit?) for this plucky mom.

THIS IS NOT HER, BUT A FACSIMILE:

oops.......serious error, here...

try again..

yes...looks like most catholic gals i know.

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Anyway, I hope I made my point clear. Please try to do better. You are now at the apex of world history, as you know: a German with control of the Holy See.  Recall your medieval struggles between Church and the Holy Roman Empire. S o  do something useful in the short time you got left.

Respectfully, james.

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