I'm glad I'm not the only one who is completely disgusted by all this fawning, sensationalist mob-grief coverage about the death of the Pope.
Thank God for The Guardian's Polly Toynbee and in particular this article.
Quite why Tony Blair and the leaders of a good number of other supposedly sensible democracies with a decent separation of church and state feel the need to traipse past the corpse of someone who encouraged millions of the world's poorest people to throw away their condoms, have children they couldn't afford to feed and infect themselves with HIV is quite beyond me.
How about a bit of respect for human dignity?
Posted by Eurodan at April 8, 2005 10:33 PMHear, hear.
I would comment further but on reflection, I suspect my opinions on the topic would be too inflammatory to post on someone else's blog.
Posted by: Shyboy at April 8, 2005 11:18 PMDitto, except I'm rude enough to at least sketch my position, which is that I'm mentally dancing on the grave of that evil, murderous scumbag. The world is a better place without him.
Ding-dong! The Witch is dead!
Posted by: matt at April 10, 2005 8:51 PM