Royal! Wedding! Who gives a fuck.  Let us devote our news discussions toward stuff more flippant. Wars, revolutions, rising gasoline profits and prices, rising food prices, rising state and federal deficits. To Hell with all of these earth shattering elite society stories.

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Nice turn of phrase!

I second gloveshot: who gives a fuck if two idiots who are too bland to even be called ugly are getting hitched? But all of the UK (and a lot of the US) media can’t think of anything else. So freaking sad on so many levels.

who gives a fuck if two idiots who are too bland to even be called ugly are getting hitched? 

Not me, but I did love Hitchens’ characterizations of the in-laws:

Princess Margaret later married and divorced a man she did not love and then had years to waste as the model of the bone-idle, cigarette-holdered, gin-sipping socialite, surrounded with third-rate gossips and charmers and as unhappy as the day was long.

Prince Charles, subjected to a regime of fierce paternal harangues and penitential cold-shower boarding schools, withdrew into himself, was eventually talked into a calamitous marriage with someone he didn’t love or respect, and is now the morose, balding, New Age crank and licensed busybody that we flinch from today. 

Also, this phrase:

the vapid disco-princesses Diana and Sarah

Good stuff. I wish he weren’t dying, that Hitchens.