Last week, Pope Francis gave an interview to a Mexican radio station, and in that interview he implied that his tenure, and or time on this Earth would be short. “ROME — On the second anniversary of the start of his papacy, Pope Francis announced that the Roman Catholic Church would mark an extraordinary Holy Year in December, though he might not be celebrating many more anniversaries in the future. “I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief — four or five years; I do not know, even two or three,” he predicted in an interview with a Mexican broadcaster. “Two have already passed. It is a somewhat vague sensation,” the pope said, reiterating his belief that “the Lord has placed me here for a short time, and nothing more.”....NEW YORK TIMES” In the grandiose and haunted halls of the Vatican, is St. Malachy whispering into the Pope’s dreams? St Malachy, in the 12th Century AD, predicted that Pope Francis would be the last Pope On January 11, 2011, this Bl

Demography is a strange mistress; the numbers are immutable, yet somehow miss the point. In 1945, the United States defeated Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan with 139 million people. In 1992, the United States defeated the Soviet Union with a population of 236 million. In 2015, the United States has a population of 316 million people, both legal and illegal, and it cannot defeat anyone. Historically, the United States has picked a bad time to have an inept, burgeoning population, for 2015 is at the cusp of dystopia. Scientist agree that the world is living in the Anthropocene Era, an era marked by the Earth being forced into deterioration by the activities of Mankind, including over population. “T he beginning of the so-called “anthropocene” or human epoch is a hotly debated topic in geology, with suggestions varying widely from the start of farming about 10,000 years ago to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1945. However, two scientists have made a ca

The  #hashtag Millennial Generation is the most smug generation in their self righteous morality in the history of civilization, and that includes the Victorians, and that is saying something.  In 2050, their #hashtag morality will be put to the ultimate test, as future President Selena Gomez Joli-Uhuru  will have to make a decision on the cosmological  plight of 30 million Bangladeshis. For those Millennials with diminished math skills, that is merely 35 years away. The People's Republic of Bangladesh ( Gônôprôjatôntri Bangladesh ), used to be part of the British Indian Empire, the British Raj. In the 1947 partition of the Raj between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, Bangladesh, being overwhelmingly Muslim, opted to join the Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan became a nation of Muslims, divided into West Pakistan and East Pakistan (Bangladesh), and separated by 1200 km of Indian Territory (740 miles). Bangladesh  was and is bordered by India on the west, north, and east. To the so