Tea and Vitriol

Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome and spiritual leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics around the world, died on Monday. He was 88 years old and in poor health for some time. Pope Francis died shortly after meeting with US Vice President JD Vance, himself a covert to Roman Catholicism. What effect that might have had on the Pope's health is anyone's guess. But as soon as the Pope was dead, the Vatican's PR team immediately sprang into action to sing his praises. As a lapsed Catholic who had been subjected to the rigors of a Catholic primary school education, I have long disregarded the importance of anything the Popes said or did. It's quite apparent that most "devout" Roman Catholics do the same but haven't got the courage of their convictions to say so. It is true that I have had the good fortune to meet a few good, interesting and intelligent Roman Catholic clergymen, as well as similar type clergymen of different faiths. My relations with them we...

  By now, most people who can read know who Alvin Bragg, asshole, is. He's the Manhattan district attorney who chooses to reduce violent felonies to the status of misdemeanors and lets the feral urban humanoids arrested for these crimes go free without bail pending their trials. This has allowed the self-same feral urban humanoids to commit more crimes and then, once again, being turned loose to continue in their chosen careers. Rinse and repeat. The result has been a meteoric increase in crime in Manhattan, that part of New York City under the jurisdiction of Alvin Bragg, asshole. Then, heady with that "success," Alvin Bragg, asshole, decided he needed to make a name for himself on a national, and international, scale. He decided to go after Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States! And not for the sake of pursuing justice or making America safer, because, God knows, Alvin Bragg, asshole, isn't concerned with either justice or safety. Alvin Bragg, asshol...