No pope after first vote by cardinals
(Sung to the charge song) Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope... Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope... Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope... Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope... Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope... Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope.. Pope! Pope!
Man, this is why I hate the 24-hour news cycle. Everything is a crisis. I wandered by a TV today and saw four talking heads screeching about how hard it was to pick a Pope and so on. I remember making this comment to someone about ten years ago... At the time I was really into watching CNBC. It's an interesting channel, but during the day, every second something is going on and you have to be aware constantly! Dow up. Dow Down. Dow flat. Trading heavy. Industrials off. Energy stocks rallying. Big box retailers spiraling. Home builders on fire. Now the ad-wizards have just extended that to all news. Pope alive. Pope dead. Schiavo alive. Schiavo dead. Michael Jackson... still a pervert. Should you allow burning of judges who ban the ten commandments. But this does not end when the market closes. There's no breather! The talking head channels are addictive though... they play right into the limbic system. We love conflict and we love to watch it.
This is why RSS is so nice... everything is event driven. If some area of the news has no updates, you see nothing. Well, no news stories anyway. You still see comments and op-ed out the yin-yang. 