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One of my mother's childhood stories is how she came home from school one day and her neighbour was leaning out of the window and shouted "The pope is dead!"
And my mother went "Hah hah, yeah, six weeks ago."

The year was 1978 (~~how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now --- sorry~~), and there was, indeed, a papacy that lasted just a few weeks.

Seen like that, one and a half years of federal presidency don't look that shabby anymore, I suppose. But my goodness, we're rather going through heads of state right now, aren't we? Not that it's a genuinely important post, but it's still looking... odd. Instable, sort of. Banana republic.

I guess the funniest thing is that when Wulff was elected, there were many comments along the lines of "Yeah, he's boring, but at least he's too boring for scandals." Oh, hindsight!

And that's really all I've got to say on that topic, because I cannot even express how disinterested I am. Shame on me, yeah, I know, but... well. It's only the head of state, not the head of government, after all... ^^

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*Very often, I find it hard to come up with a subject line for my posts. This time, the only trouble was deciding for one.