Assassination central
Monday 10th August 2020 Everything that is written on the internet by anyone is searched by algorithms for keywords. Even blogs like this get searched. It shouldn't be a surprise. As the publisher of this blog I can look at the usage statistics and see who has looked at the blog, at least by nationality. In this way I can see that my blog has been read very little by very few people in very few places. My friends in Korea had a nibble, my friends in France ditto, my friends in England most regularly nibble and my friends in Canada have a little nibble once in a while. But several weeks ago I used a word in a blog entry that clearly triggered off readership in an unusual place. I speculated that with world changes putting conservative forces within the Vatican under a lot of pressure, the reactionary Catholic right wing, fearful and desparing as they are, might produce some looney who would try to assassinate the Pope. He, after all, is viewed by that reactionary cadre as the...