Guest post from our buddy Looserobes.

There must be something wrong with me; I’m not all agog in anticipation of the royal wedding. It’s hard to imagine a more useless yet well-kept family of people than the British Royals. Maintained in luxury that is beyond the imagination of most of us, they lead a life of privilege by the accident of their birth. I strongly suspect that their most intimate bodily functions are strikingly similar to everyone else’s, but you wouldn’t know it from the worship accorded them. They may have even more money than Donald Trump, but he at least has worked for his, and you can laugh at his hairdo all you want, it’s not as ludicrous as a bejeweled crown.

Isn’t this the 21st Century? Isn’t the world – including England – engulfed in an economic crisis with millions of people living in abject poverty? You may not know how you’ll ever pay down those credit cards but, for the British Royals, the citizenry of that country is their credit card. Plus, it’s interest free and no limit. These people actually can say without fear of contradiction… our home is our castle. Attended to by a large staff of maids, cooks, chauffeurs, gardeners and the like, garbed in clothing from the best and most expensive British clothiers, these people don’t have to get out of bed in the morning if they don’t feel like it, and when they do get out of bed, I’ll just bet they’re wearing really posh pajamas and nightgowns.

Speaking of getting out of bed, I will definitely not be among those arising Friday morning at 2 AM (ET) to take in the splendor of the royal wedding. With the attention being accorded to it by the American media, you’d think there weren’t have-nots being killed across the Middle East by the armies of despots. On the news tonight, the time accorded to the fighting in Libya and Syria was several minutes less than that given over to Wills and Kate. Even CNN, an otherwise legitimate all-news network, has a crew over there to beam back the glorious nuptials. Spare me…


Here is a photo of the Grand Canyon. Looserobes can look out his window and see it in the same way Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.