No he isn’t, according to news reports, he is just sleeping.

Seriously, though, this deathwatch is killing me. It seems like the media has nothing better to do than speculate on when the Pope is going to die. It is wholly undignified how they all want to be the first to report his passing. One radio station here promises updates every few minutes. They are breaking in to network TV to report that he is still alive. I know that a billion Catholics want to know, but this is getting ridiculous.

And it was almost this bad with Terri Schiavo…and she wasn’t the spiritual leader for a billion people.

F@$k the media. I hate almost all the commercial outlets (and NPR counts in that too). Have some respect for the dying.