Volkditty

Last paragraph…

"Then the wheel falls off while you’re driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you’re meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You’re helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car’s descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won’t that be nice.

*Assuming you lived through it."

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It’s more nuanced than that, but generally speaking papal infallibility today only extends to very limited circumstances where the Pope puts on his special papal infallibility hat and says, “I hereby decree…” some specific topic of church law.

A handful of relatives at Thanksgiving wanted to have a conversation/diatribe about what the pope was doing wrong but hey look, I’m gonna go stand over here instead.

You know what your problem is, it’s those damn cellphones.

Well, that confirms it. There’s no way a millionaire could have had a hot tub installed since last June!

How many persons do you reckon he eats in one sitting?

This isn’t going to go down with the strongly Catholic members of my family, all of whom believe they know Church doctrine better than the pope.

Americans have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of frivolous lawsuits.