The one percent won't need a laxative this weekend. The voters of Scotland threw a big scare into those who believe that the status quo is sacred. All's well that ends well and the voters came to their senses at the last minute and voted to keep things the way they were.
News reports said that British officials at first thought it would be a lark. Then they refused to even consider a negative result. Recently some influential Brits were dispensing condescending bromides to the Scottish citizens with the "yes, yes, of course; now run along and play" tone.
Some late polls indicated an upset "Yes" victory was possible.
Polling used to be such a precise science, but lately, more often than not, the polls go one way and then when the votes are cast, the results give the pontificating pundits a chance to solemnly intone a comment that the voters mind is not that easily quantified and that it is always best to wait for the official results before celebrating a victory.
ISIS's weekly beheading got short shrift in the news media. Some arrests this week in Sydney made the news in the USA and we couldn't help but wonder how many of those bad guys were nabbed in the King's Cross Section.
The National Football League hired some women to advise the players how they should behave at home. There was no indication of whether this service would also include instructions on how they should vote at election time.
The political activists who are monitoring the numbers regarding young men who have been shot while reaching for a police officer's weapon will want to do Google news searches for Darien Hunt and Richard Perez.
After years of being George W. Bush's war, President Obama urged congress to officially do a new vote and make it a bipartisan effort under his stewardship. They complied very rapidly. Thus the World's Laziest Journalist's streak of weekly criticism of Dubya's war, will now end.
Since this political shift expunges the stigma from the "Bush Dynasty" concept, we will continue to inundate our audience with dire predictions that all this is just an elaborate prelude to the election of JEB in 2016.
Is this all going on schedule with a dire, diabolical, and draconian plan devised long ago by Karl Rove?
In other news this week, the staff of the Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory was caught completely off guard and unaware when the Getty and Armstrong radio program scored a scoop with the report of a rumor that the trendy new theory alleges that Joan Rivers was "offed" because she had authored the assertion that President Obama is gay and that his wife is a "tranny."
Indian Summer is the best time of year in many areas of the world and particularly so in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perhaps it is time to go for a long walk there and jettison the old ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting.
Do they have Indian Summer in Australia?
Is "September Song" particularly poignant if you hear it sitting in a cafe in Paris?
Is an Italian meal in Frisco's North Beach area a panacea for ennui? Or a ticket to Paris?
We read somewhere that when Paris was being liberated, the French radio station played the Marseillaise and in an textbook perfect example of mental telepathy people throughout the city cranked up the volume and opened their windows in the real Howard Beal moment.
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