haha, that's a good closing statement.
Kyle | Homepage | 11.04.08 - 8:42 am | #

Meritocracy? Isn't that so..... gulp.... Protestant Work Ethic?
Gerard E. | 11.04.08 - 9:00 am | #

How un-Italian! Wasn't it good Pope John who quippd, when asked, "How many people work in the Vatinan" -- "Oh, about half of them?" :)
Gashwin | 11.04.08 - 10:11 am | #

LOL, like the cards will help. I was waiting for the piazza of Saint Peter to open the other day and the Polizia were just sitting there in their little golf cart smoking cigarettes, talking to each other, waiting for the walkie-talkie to tell them to move the barracades. It's not like they are digging ditches in the vatican.
Roman Sacristan | Homepage | 11.04.08 - 10:15 am | #

Office Space: Vatican edition
GW | 11.04.08 - 10:31 am | #

Well, the current Pope is not Italian, and you are justified by works . . .

but meritocracy is the wrong word to use in this case.

St. Paul: He who does not work does not eat.
fh in Houston | 11.04.08 - 1:03 pm | #