Heh.
Then again, perhaps all our former presidents are becoming Catholic. I just heard a news report on the radio about the gang heading to the Pope’s funeral–all that is, except Carter.
“It’s not clear why President Carter won’t be traveling to the funeral,” the news reporter said, disapprovingly.
Hmmm, perhaps because he’s not Catholic?
Instead of asking why someone isn’t going to Rome, I think the appropriate question should be why most of these non-Catholic politicians are going.

San Francisco attempting to regulate a campaign’s use of paid political blogging?

This just in. Okay, if you are being picky, this just in two years ago: “Geographer shows ‘Kansas flatter than a pancake’.”
This (1) illustrates the importance of perspective, and (2) shows that academics have the freedom to do weird stuff.

Term I found in some comments. Pretty fitting. I may use it myself.

This reminds me how long some of my papers seemed to drag out back in educational days: “Internet study finished — after 7 years.”
No biggie, really. The Internet hasn’t changed much in the past seven years.