Bring Back the Dunce Cap - For Teachers!

Maybe we can extend the practice to Cape Cod charter schools
And teacher's wages should be indexed to MCAS results

During morning Mass today, My Eminence observed an inattentive teenager who was far more interested in teasing the girl in front of him than in the Elevation of the Host. Fortunately, Sister Aloysius was quick with her yardstick and left the little devil with the markings of her wrath.

Saint Timothy, who was serving at the altar, muttered "Dunce!" under his breath and that brought a Divine Revelation: Bring back the Dunce Cap - but only for teachers!

Holy Father loved the idea!

Cape women rally for fashion, Grunge gives way to Gucci here

Vistors claim they can't tell one gender from another
But claim the men dress better

By Lirpa Loof, Hyannisport correspondent

rewster's Rene Wallace and East Harwich's Tap Skroob, shown on right, lead new, grassroots movement to force Cape Cod damsels to switch from their present  Basse Mode to Dior and Prada, or at least Life's End..

Long derided as the worst-dressed women in American where they were once lauded at the "feminine ideal".

Local women boycott Jeans and Woolrich and L. L. Bean

Local daily newspaper announces logo design contest winner, To replace entire Editorial Board

Legless Seagull to be replaced by a Wind Turbine

t our local Rupert Murdoch-owned daily newspaper, the Editors have decided to revamp their infamous Editorial Board to exclude any staff members who have not worked in another newspaper's newsroom for at least a two decades.

Since 2000 the editorial board had written nothing except anti-wind farm editorials, 1,275 to date. According to an estimate by Editorial Page Editor William Mills that is an "editorial stuck-record" after this strange obsession was finally been noticed by one of the daily's remaining 28 subscribers who is at an East Osterville nursing home.

The ten-year time delay was due, a newspaper official said, to the fact that apparently no one within living memory at the newspaper or elsewhere had actually ever read a Times' editorial.

Cape Cod Times redesigns new logo as well and Bill Koch is the winner

New Cable Drama Series to Film in Barnstable

“Boardwalk Empire” to star Charlie Sheen as corrupt Town Manager

The star of "Walkway Empire" is made up to resemble a local, veteran Town Manager

ollowing in the steps of HBO’s blockbuster “Boardwalk Empire”, News of the Cape has learned that one of the cable networks is now casting for “Walkway Empire”, a new drama series based upon the tawdry affairs of the town of Barnstable.

Thus far the major roles have been cast with Charlie Sheen as corrupt Town Council President Seamus O’Toole, Mickey Rourke as chief of police Rodney Doolittle, Lindsey Lohan as the nightclub owner Freda Urbanetti (F.U. to her friends) and Sean Penn as indefatigable town manager B.T. Mycock. Paris Hilton will portray crusading district attorney Marion Dike, the political partner and unrequited love interest of B.T. Mycock.

Barring gunshots, promotional footage will be filmed next week along the so-called “Walkway to the Sea” in beautiful downtown Hyannis.  Sources say the main house at the Kennedy Compound will be used as the O’Toole family’s seat of power.   Tom Cruise guest stars as the heroic head of security for the Horseshoe Shoals Wind Farm who keeps the wind turbines safe from the Terrorism Alliance’s constant attacks.

Avenging Angels, Demons Threaten Harwich, Plymouth Martyr Fast-Tracked for Sainthood

Dark Angel Arrested

he Holy Father summoned me to his chamber at sunrise today with Cape Cod Today's report on the arrest of Gina Clark, head of the former Touched by Angels charity in Plymouth July 13th on a shoplifting charge. The entire Vatican reads Cape Cod Today right before morning devotions.

Those afflicted with such wickedness should indeed be "touched by angels" - not not the sweet cherubs of the New Testament - no, no! Holy Father prays to unleash some Old Testament avenging angels to smite those who sin so egregiously.

Normally My Eminence invites sinners to visit my confessional. In this case, Saint Timothy prophesied that the confessional would burst into flames should the Dark Angel cross its threshold.

Demons Threaten Harwich Cinema

Holy Father also called my attention to the bomb scare at the Regal Cinema in Harwich as the sun rose in the East. The Holy See-Saw believes this to be the work of demons Hell-bent on forcing the Harry Potter film from the screens of Harwich. Fortunately both Entertainment Cinemas in Dennis and the Wellfleet Cinemas remained demon-free so the good citizens and summer guests could see their film during Harry Potter Weekend.

My Eminence will conduct an exorcism at the cinema as soon as divinely possible. We expect this to be the first of many exorcisms at that property, as the cursed Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School is expected to acquire the cinema before long. Once CCLCS arrives on site we shudder at the thought of the head-spinning, vomit-spewing demons that we must eject from the premises. And then there's the constant fear of a volcano opening up in the back parking lot as the Volcano Gods grow hungry.

Plymouth Martyr Venerated

As part of our quest to be more in touch with modern values, the Holy Father has venerated the martyr Thomas Granger who was executed at Plimoth Plantation in 1642 for buggery with various farm animals. The contemporary account recorded by Governor Bradford reads as follows:

He [Thomas Granger] was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey. Horrible it is to mention, but the truth of the history requires it.

He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forbear particulars.) Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictment. And this his free confession was not only in private to the magistrates (though at first he strived to deny it) but to sundry, both ministers and others; and afterwards, upon his indictment, to the whole Court and jury; and confirmed it at his execution. And whereas some of the sheep could not so well be known by his description of them, others with them were brought before him and he declared which were they and which were not. And accordingly he was cast by the jury and condemned, and after executed about the 8th of September, 1642.

A very sad spectacle it was. For first the mare and then the cow and the rest of the lesser cattle were killed before his face, according to the law, Leviticus xx.15; and then he himself was executed. The cattle were all cast into a great and large pit that was digged of purpose for them, and no use made of any part of them. (1952:320-1)

Since the Holy See-Saw is presently considering the question of consecrating inter-species marriage, the Congregation for the Cause of Saints sees this as the optimum time to place Mr. Granger on a fast-track for sainthood. The Congregation now seeks evidence of a single miracle attributed to Thomas Granger in order to advance him to the next step of Beautification.

Mon Dieu, the cow's milk did taste a bit odd this morning...

Blessings to my beloved,

My Eminence Cardinal Borgia

Mainland Barnstable County Secedes!

Cape Cod Loses 5000 Taxpayers

n a sudden and stunning development, the villages of Buzzards Bay and Sagamore Beach have voted to secede from both the Town Of Bourne and Barnstable County. The final vote was 4600 to 3. The runaway villages will unite to form a town of their own, named "Road's End.." They will then apply for admission into Plymouth County. Sources tell this paper that said application is already approved. Road's End will be a bowtie-shaped entity running from Buttermilk Bay's north shore to Great Herring Pond's south shore east to the Atlantic. Her southern border will be the Cape Cod Canal. 

A Miraculous New Medium

he Holy Father asked me to thank News of the Cape for providing such a blessed platform for our teachings. We are eager to spread the gospel of the Borgia Pope far and wide across God's wonderland of Cape Cod.

Today the Popemobile traveled to an inflatible wonderland in Dennis. Holy Father was most disappointed to learn that this was a destination to experience children's bouncy games in giant beasts of the forests. His Holiness had a different kind of inflatible toy in mind but gives his sincere blessing for this wholesome endeavor.

After lunch, Holy Father walked across Town Cove from Orleans to Eastham to view the campus for the proposed Alexander Sextus Center for Holy Inquisition at the site of the closed Roman Catholic Church on Massasoit Road. Holy Father was saddened by the disrepair of the property. Heads will roll! Meanwhile, he ponders selling the campus to the Town of Eastham as a library now that their ill fated Jurassic Library was wait-listed by the Commonwealth.

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Hyannisport Outrage, Martyrdom in Orleans, Witch Hunt in Barnstable

Twilight in Camelot

atholicism hit a new low the the other day when Patrick Kennedy was married outside the family compound in Hyannisport. The civil ceremony was conducted by a sitting justice of the United States Supreme Court. Yes, a scion of Camelot was married in a civil ceremony! The sand sculpture to the right aptly depicts the demise of Camelot.

I was disappointed that they didn't call upon My Eminence to sanctify their nuptials. The Holy Father was so upset he cried himself to sleep. The Holy See-Saw is considering Excommunication but does realize we don't condone divorce, either, so perhaps no further Inquisition need be conducted.