ship of state
—Isn't Ratzinger, like, really old?
—I think that was part of the point. The last Pope was so popular that they didn't want anyone to have to spend too long in his shadow.
—Ah. So he's a palate-cleanser Pope.
A great link from (Tucson) Matt; a video from a Berkeley biology class closing with a professor's heartfelt message to the student who stole his laptop. If this has been making the rounds through campus, I haven't caught wind of it yet.
