Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
The long awaited Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament is going on right now and I’m sure she’s just loving this one with the farce of Brexit going on in the background. You’ve just got to love the British penchant for pomp and circumstance…the Queen being kitted out in the Robing Room in plain sight of Charles I’s death warrant on the wall to Black Rod’s trek to have the door of the…
This is unprecedented, to put it mildly. Never in all my years of following the goings on in the Palace of Westminster would I have ever imagined a sitting PM getting smacked so comprehensively as this 11-nil vote by the Law Lords of the UK Supreme Court. Effectively the advice given to Her Majesty and the subsequent Order in Council suspending Parliament are now vacated and null and void and the Speaker has already indicated…
When she came visiting on Tuesday, she came bearing this dish with the Minnesotan hot dish her grandmother made legendary. The last time I had it was over 15 years ago when she was still with us. Aunt Judy…this stray of yours still misses you terribly! But you trained Meghann well… :)
I would have SO loved to have done something this cheeky when I've been made redundant and I'd be forced to attend an "exit interview" with HR under threat of them not paying severance (which is illegal as hell but HR counts on the fact that most people are usually so shocked that they don't think of ringing up the Wage and Hour Division and filing a complaint). If you've never experienced one, thank your…
My first visit to the site of the attacks on the World Trade Centre was in April of 2009. Mind you, this was well before the 9/11 Memorial opened in 2011 but the scale of what they had to excavate and haul away just to get to the point of laying down the footprint of what would become the Freedom Tower was more than a little overwhelming. All of this in the very tight confines…
Trust me, it could be far worse. You could be the current Prime Minister of Her Majesty's Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland! Yes, ol' Boris is finding out that sometimes having something isn't quite the same thing as wanting it. A fair heap of the Conservative Party saw fit to pack him off to No 10 Downing Street after Theresa May realised that the EU has already figured out that the House of…
