At stephdiary's house last night there was a silly conversation about papal infallibility, and how the Pope is only infallible when he specifically says he's being infallible. It occurred to me that this was probably just as well, since you'd hate to be burdened with the responsibility of infallibility when you'd just got up and were wittering incoherently over your breakfast.

This morning I got up, saw the ‘1’ on my calendar, and while still half asleep said to myself ‘oh yes, it's July now’. I think that proves my point. If I'd been the Pope and my infallibility had been always-on, there's no telling what might have happened to the nature of time and causality as a result of that absent-minded misstatement!