Gallimaufry

There'll Always Be an England

And thank goodness for that!  This made me laugh on a cold grey damp day.  If I thought I could get one which would operate on US current, I'd buy it.  I probably ought to replace the cheap plastic kettle I bought as an experiment about 5 years ago... (via Vonda)

And this made me wonder what the nice folks at Nice Cup of Tea were up to.  I've been horribly remiss in reading online for the last oh, um, some months.  Anyway, it's biscuit voting month there so I recommend you go there and vote.  While I go eat the last packet of McVittie's milk chocolate digestives I bought in England.

Hurricane Recovery

As usual, Molly lays it on the line

Look, this is rank, nasty business -- corruption, cronyism and competence (the lack thereof) are the issues here. And as we have so recently and so painfully been reminded, when government is run by corrupt, incompetent cronies, real people pay a real price. There is nothing abstract about swollen bodies floating in flooded streets or dozens of old people dead in nursing homes.

I wonder if I'd hate them less if they were competent, corrupt cronies?