Still, if an angry spaniel grabs my arm by its teeth, I don’t usually begin worrying for my life.

A WARNING: Sinead O’Connor, the bald singer who infamously tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half on “Saturday Night Live,” has released a new CD titled “Theology.”

Isn’t that just a little like Ted Nugent recording an album called “All Creatures Great and Small”?

O’Connor says the CD contains songs about love, hope and worship — “my own little response in a tiny way to what is going on politically, spiritually in the world, namely what has gone on since Sept. 11.”

Well, I’m glad she’s calmed down after all these years, but, Sinead, be careful about ticking off popes. There’s a new sheriff in town. And he’s running a tight Vatican.

ALIENS, BAT BOY DESTROY NEWSPAPER: As of Aug. 27, the most delightfully bad, gleefully stupid newspaper ever to publish will be shutting down. The Weekly World News will cease publication after 28 years.

But weep not, for the paper’s Web site — www.weeklyworldnews.com — will soldier on.

Maybe then we can get some video of Bay Boy. Cool.

Rodney Richey, copy editor and columnist of The Herald Bulletin, can be reached at rodney.richey@heraldbulletin.com.