Now, Sinsull, you can't actually say you like "Long Live the Pope," do you?

Actually, I guess I have to admit I love its fully-roasted-on-the-cob corniness - but if I sang it outside of liberal Catholic circles, people would either think I believe it, or they'd burn me at the stake as a sacrilegious heretic. When I was in the seminary, we loved to sing those old corny songs - knowing full well how corny they were.

Sinsull specializes in corny sentimental songs. She sings them straight, enough that it sometimes brings a tear to my eye and then I hate myself for it. But no, I don't think Sinsull buys all that sentimentality. She's a fraud, but that's why I love her.

-Joe Offer-