Well Nuke, I guess what I was trying to say was that the Pope's death, however boring it is to me, is far and away much more newsworthy than any of a multitude of things that gets planted on our radar here.
Usually, what happens is.... Somebody will pick some little graf from some BS little story from the Kansas City Watchtowerwhatever.
Folks here read the snippet, then proceed to go bat****.
Then, a few days later, the rest of the story comes out, and the thread quietly goes away.
I aint much of a fan of these kinds of threads.... But if we can pay Schiavo our dues, we can sure as hell pay JP his.
You are dissin' the press for their coverage of it. Which is fine. But nevermind the multitudes upon kajillions of people who actually care about this story... You want to ignore the press' overhyping of almost everything else and choose to nail them to the proverbial cross over this one?