"Like slavery and veils and genital mutilation"
VIA MATT TAIBBI, Tim Kreider on royals:
“It seems to me like monarchy is one of those things, like slavery and veils and genital mutilation and car chases in movies, that we ought to be well rid of by now. Didn't we fight a revolution so we wouldn't have to give a shit about these costumed inbred morons anymore? Come to think of it, didn't Oliver Cromwell lop off Charles I's head, like four hundred years ago? It seems like such pathetic primate dynamics that we're still fascinated with these silly useless ornamental people. I can't in good conscience give them a very high asshole rating because they're essentially neutered and can't do any harm to anyone, but I'm still going to go ahead and award them all a solid 1000 just for not having the shame to abdicate.”