We are living the curse of "interesting times."

I don't consider the war in Ukraine "interesting," but horrifying so I'm not going to talk about it except to say, people need to stop listening to the simplistic pap of CNN, MSNBC, and the blathering idiots on The View. I suspect those folks haven't cracked a book since they used Cliff Notes in college and term paper websites for their essays and theses. Have they read the Pandora Papers about Zelensky's offshore stash, one of the things his predecessor was booted for? Do they know anything about the U.S. involvement in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that threw out a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED president and replaced him with someone more agreeable to U.S. interests? Hey, Uncle Joe needed the buddy system so Hunter could cash in on his Ukraine connections. But...I said I wasn't going to talk about the war, so I'll switch to a very interesting item. 

Sandro Magister of L’Espresso, a well-known Vatican reporter just released an anonymous memo, under the name "Demos" - Greek for people, that may have been written by a Cardinal. Or, considering the plural nature of the name, perhaps by several insiders. The memo addresses the catastrophic situation at the Vatican and the next conclave which is likely to take place in the next few years. I'm publishing the entire memo with highlighted sections and my comments. As I said, it's interesting.