Man. I had a fasebuk friend say something like
"some people's comments on here regarding the Pope's visit are disgusting and stupid.. if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all!!"

In fact that's exactly what she said. I was gobsmacked by the level of stupidity. He's not some five year old girl with hurty feewings. He's an extremely privileged man who had to fight his way to a position of power where he's the nominal head of a billion people.
The opening to criticism of those with that level of power isn't just a good idea, it's absolutely mandatory, even if he's only doing mildly controversial things, as opposed to, say, being the Catholic Church.

I really wanted to link her to that pic on the FP about disguising boys as girls.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 17 Sep 2010, 13:00, Reply)