There’s a whole lotta hatin’ going on Facebook and Twitter about tomorrow’s Royal Wedding.
True, the news media is filled to bursting with coverage — all the minutiae on Kate and Wills, their families, the wedding parties, the route, the ceremony, the receptions, the ridiculous souvenirs.
It’s almost as annoying as NBC’s promotion of The Voice.
But how can Americans spew such bitterness upon these nuptials, when we typically lavish such love on all things British?
Don’t we get all excited each summer come Wimbledon… even though its finals fall on or around our nation’s Independence Day? Sure, we have the US Open in September, but their tennis tournament has the Duke and Duchess of Kent, strawberries and cream, and spiffy tennis whites.
It’s so proper. It’s soooo not us.
And don’t we love the actors and actresses who hail from the British isle, with their superior dramatic training and — most importantly — their glorious British accents? 
Didn’t we just bestow the Best Actor Oscar on the very worthy Colin Firth for his performance in The King’s Speech? We love him ‘exactly as he is’ — for his Mr. Darcy-ness — a quality that could not be achieved if he were not British.
You know it’s true.
So, America, try to recapture some of the love for the British that was in your heart when you gave The King’s Speech the Best Picture Oscar…when the very prickly, very American The Social Network clearly deserved to win.
It’s there. You’ve just forgotten.
(Ad campaigns will do that to you.)
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Has the endless string of GOP debates and cable commentary soured you on politics?
Perhaps this cat will change your mind.
And yes, he’s a cat. A nine-year old Maine coon.
This write-in candidate can’t write. Or speak. But thanks to his campaign manager Matthew O’Leary, Hank has a platform. And a Facebook page. And a Twitter page and bumper stickers and yard signs. He even gives interviews to the media.
But he never wears pants. Yep, just your typical politician.
What’s not typical is who is benefiting from his cat-paign (sorry). All monies raised for his election are going to the Humane Society of Fairfax County.
I wish I lived in Virginia — just this once — so I could vote for Hank.
Rory Dog, however, is not impressed.
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