In other irrelevant news...

Sometimes I feel like I am Statler or Waldorf...for those too young to recall them (or to smart to have watched them) they were the 2 critics on The Muppets who sat in the balcony watching the show and making remarks such as:

Statler: Boy, he's really good, that Rudolf Nur-i, Nure... You know, I really should learn how to pronounce his name.
Waldorf: Don't bother. After this show, he'll probably change it.

one of the characters received a shock which prompted this exchange;
Waldorf: What did you think?
Statler: Shocking.
Waldorf: But was it funny?
Statler: No. That would really be shocking!

at the closing credits we heard this;
Statler: Hey you old fool, you slept through the show!
Waldorf: Who's the fool? You watched it!

Waldorf: They aren't half bad.
Statler: Nope. They're all bad.

after a song;
Statler: That number was a real show-stopper.
Waldorf: Too bad it didn't stop this show.

Statler: What's that song that Tony Bennett always sings?
Waldorf: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".
Statler: Big deal. I left my teeth in Minneapolis.

Statler: Hey, look! Look at the guy in the Goofy mask!
Waldorf: That's not a mask.
Statler: Oh. Sorry, lady.

I could go on for a while...those judges always cracked me up. Who knows, perhaps I garnered my passion for sitting back mocking the news as I do here as a homage to their brilliance? Be that as it may, I often feel like I am Statler or Waldorf as I look upon the world and point out random bits of nonsense and stupidity for laughs...and hopefully you achieve a laugh now and again from my material.

But it is hard not to go Statler and Waldorf when you see news like this. Seriously, let's go over the sequence of events:
Marriage. Twins. over a decade. "Oh, by the way, you were never married." Divorce.

My low opinion of catholicism is not exactly a well-kept secret and things like this are just one of the reasons. The convoluted logic that leads to saying "We don't allow divorce so we just retroactively declare things never happened" leads to curious things such as this; if the Kennedys were never married (as indicated by their marriage being annulled) yet managed to have twins, one can certainly infer they engaged in sex. Not being married to each other, one can further infer they therefore had sex outside of marriage and the natural deduction is they were therefore, according to the tenets of the catholic church, sinning. Of course, when they engaged in it they were not sinning...but later it turns out they were even though ther weren't when they were. (Follow the logic, that sentence makes sense...even though it shouldn't.)

I wonder how confession goes for that:

"Father, I have sinned. I had sex with a man for 12 years. Of course, I thought we were married, which we were at the time, but later we found out the marriage did not count when it was annulled. So I need to repent of a sin I committed even though I wasn't sinning when I did it. Am I going to have to spend extra time in purgatory for this?"
priest: "You had sex for 12 years? did you take time out to eat?"