Wednesday, June 29, 2016

British Exit

Throwing a tantrum at the polls is not liberating; it is self defeating. - Eugene Robinson

Brexit (or British Exit) has happened.  Chaos has ensued.  Stock markets all over the world have taken a dive.  Britain's credit rating has been lowered.  Much more toppling is expected.  Brits who voted for exiting the European Union have signed petitions for a do-over, saying they didn't mean it.  It was just a "protest" vote.

Stephen Corbett had a funny but scary bit on Late Night a couple of evenings ago.  He was on top of a building telling us the concept that, if you dropped a penny from a great height it could kill someone, is not true.  But then he decided to drop a British coin.

And then everything broke loose.  Cars and planes crashed, buildings fell, stuff blew up spontaneously.  We got the point.

When Dave looked at the drawing on the current New Yorker magazine he couldn't figure it out.  But he wasn't a fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

I sure hope we Americans don't do anything silly at the voting booth.


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