God Save The Queen - Only He Can

24th March 2008 with 7 Comments

From: Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
To: The citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
The Queen will resume monarchical duties over all [...]

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Tourists and Chips II

5th February 2008 with 0 Comments

New Title: English and Chips

In The Fragrant City, the city of my birth, 3500 kilometres away, I’m nothing until I can speak English. This wasn’t the case for my father or his father, or for any of my ancestors going back more than 12,000 years. They were who they were. But for me and my [...]

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