"Jackass of the Day" Award

It's always a tough call in handing out a "Jackass of the Day Award," but fortunately the world has Terry Eagleton. Eagleton's commentary in the UK's Guardian today is entitled, "The Pope Has Blood on His Hands." In a diatribe of garbage that would make Ted Rall, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman proud, Eagleton ends his post with the following about Pope John Paul II:

The greatest crime of his papacy, however, was neither his part in this cover up nor his neanderthal attitude to women. It was the grotesque irony by which the Vatican condemned - as a "culture of death" - condoms, which might have saved countless Catholics in the developing world from an agonising Aids death. The Pope goes to his eternal reward with those deaths on his hands. He was one of the greatest disasters for the Christian church since Charles Darwin.

Read the whole thing if you don't mind wasting your time. The article isn't fit to be used as toilet paper after a supersized Taco Bell meal. However, it does qualify Terry with Bizblogger's distinct "Jackass of the Day Award."