Alas, poor Malta!

Saruman, I mean Doug Kmiec, has been rewarded by Sauron, I mean Barack Obama, with an ambassadorship to Malta, which is the most authentically Catholic country in the world after the Vatican (but not much bigger). Of late, my fantasies of ex-patriotism (variously targeted at Ireland or Slovakia) have turned to Malta. Given the size of the country, though, there would probably high odds of running into him in the streets.

I wonder how hard it is to learn Tagalog. . . .