a breath of fresh air

two great human beings --

"Today, we mark many firsts. Your Holiness, you have been celebrated as the first Pope from the Americas. This is your first visit to the United States. And, you are also the first pontiff to share an Encyclical through a Twitter account."

it really is quite rich listening to the republicans squealing about the pope being "too political" in his speaking on climate change and what not while here for the first time --- one, a roman catholic, going so far as to boycott his address to congress tomorrow ---- this after the better part of a half century of having to listen to the goddamn evangelicals trying to make their insane religious beliefs the law of the land ---

meanwhile, we watch the volkswagen scandal and the little prick "pharma-bro" in utter disbelief --- we should not, since both illustrate the logic of unfettered capitalism and the power of the vultures of finance, servants of mammon, who the pope has repeatedly called out as such --- viva el papa