Lies, Damned Lies, and the News
The amount of ignorance abounding in the world about the Roman Catholic Church is staggering. Aren't newspapers supposed to have factcheckers? Sickening. What the Associated Press arrogantly calls the "last rites" is actually the sacrament of the Annoiting of the Sick. There are only seven sacraments in the Church; so, is it too much to ask that they at least be described correctly? The Annointing of the Sick is not given to people only on the verge of death, it is for anyone who is gravely ill. That Weis was given the Annointing is not an indication of how close he might have been to death, it is a commentary on the fact that he was a) Catholic and b) in the hospital. A minor error? Perhaps, but if the Associated Press (and by virtue of disseminating the story the Detroit Free Press) cannot get the details of their stories correct, how can they be trusted to properly interpret events of greater import? The self-appointed tribunes of the Fourth Estate lie to you all the time. Be wary.

I'm glad Weis survived, though, since now I can laugh at him for being too weak and undisciplined to lose the weight on his own. Ha ha! I don't want Charlie Weis to die, I want him to fail.