By RegoPark
Contributing Blogger

Apparently you’re not cool if you’re not in Rome this week. Matt reports this afternoon in one of his own stories (i.e. not a link to another source) that J.P.II’s would-be assassin wants a seat at his funeral, if Turkey’ll let him out of the joint where he’s serving time for other transgressions. Prince Charles is postponing his wedding a day to see and be seen; Camilla herself won’t make it. All these people waiting all these days for him to die — now they’re lining up for a pew seat. Did they pay him that much attention in a typical season when he was alive?

Karol certainly deserves the tribute; it just smacks a little too much of Schiavo Part Two. If another hot news story rocked the mainstream media right now, you’d see how quickly the news vans would empty out of Vatican City. Why, there’d be enough room to let Sinead O’Connor past the velvet rope.

Dang, I’m cynical this week. Too many vigils, too little time.