Tea and Vitriol

What a world, what a world, what a world! Let's face it, America's presidential throne has been occupied by a yutz  parade of morons, sex pigs, criminals and con artists since it was vacated by George Bush pere  in 1992. Each has been worse than the last, allowing for the American people to become desensitized to the peccadillos of each occupant, polarizing and dividing the electorate to the point of hysteria. This is one of the reasons that the Clinton, Biden and Trump crime families have been allowed to exist and thrive. People accuse previous administrations of having been bad to justify currents ones for being arguably worse. It's politics, baby, and to the victors belong the spoils, which is true enough for both Democrat and Republican politicians from the local to the national level. It accounts for the existence of multi-millionaire Congressmen, Senators and their toadies who infest the swamp known as Washington DC. The ultimate and inevitable expression of this has ...

  Larry the Cat, Mouser in chief at Number 10 Downing Street, has just welcomed his seventh Prime Minister in his 15 years in residence there. That is no mean feat. Far more popular than any of the official political residents at Number 10, Larry the Cat has seen it all. From the yutz  parade of Conservative Prime Ministers to the black comedy of "Sir" Keir Starmer's quick rise and fall, despite the historic victory of the Labour Party in 2024, Larry the Cat has endured and survived them all. So, what does he make of it? Probably not much. The Disunited Kingdom has been a state of political, social and economic crisis even before Larry's residence there, but it really only came to a head with the asininity of Brexit from the European Union and the ineptitude of the Conservatives' handling of COVID. Their inability to provide any real solutions to the resultant cost of living crisis cost the Conservatives control of the British Government in the 2024 general electi...

July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the Second Continental Congress adopting the Declaration of Independence, which broke with the United Kingdom and ended its dominion over the 13 American colonies. It is, therefore, America's 250th birthday. Yet, as an American, I cannot get worked up about it. I am old enough to remember the Bicentennial. We had just survived the nightmares of the Vietnam War and President Nixon's Watergate scandal, which almost destroyed America and brought the Nixon regime crashing down in ruins. However, the Bicentennial helped put that behind us. It was a celebration of America and Americans, with festivities across our nation celebrating that fact, televised so that people who could not be present would be able to witness them, both here and abroad. The Bicentennial reaffirmed our national pride, illustrating to the world that we had stood on the brink of utter chaos and destruction, only to come back stronger and more united than ever. Even the p...