Saturday A.M.

Meant to get up early this morning to watch the papal enthronement, but I forgot to set an alarm, and I slept til 7, which is late for me. The ceremonies have lost a bit of their charm, though, since Paul VI sold the three-tiered papal tiara to raise money for feeding the poor and making the token gesture that "monarchial symbolism" for the papacy was no longer appropriate for the modern age, and since they no longer bear the new pope in on a litter chair. Since all they do is give the pope a new mitre, that's like no big deal, since Pope Rat already had a mitre ever since he became a bishop decades ago.