The Royal Wedding?

The entire situation has gotten ridiculous. The fawning and the oogling have reached epidemic proportions, and in America, no less. For crying out loud, it was the headline piece at, of all places, Fox News this morning. It was the Royal Wedding, and it's everywhere today, just like it has been for the bulk of the week, even to the point of overshadowing the upcoming Canadian elections (yes, they matter). Why, golly gosh darn it, why?

We threw off royalty more than two hundred years ago. We're Americans, red blooded and hot tempered and well past any regard for the Divine Right of Kings. Especially as you consider that what we are dealing with in England today are lions with no teeth, with no bite and no real roar. The House of Windsor can do nothing; it has no actual power. Why is it even in existence anymore?

Yet the guy who's second next in line for the throne and his young bride are treated, well, like royalty, even here. What fantastic effect can this possibly really have on anyone with a moment's decent thought? Or are we somehow, fondly yet inexplicably, harkening back to the days of yore, of colonies and peasantry, of taxation without representation, of the suspension of the legislative process and the quartering of soldiers? What? What rational explanation can there be of this, this excess of froth and frivolity?

Americans honoring royalty? What's next in bizarro world, Superman renounces his US citizenship?

Oh. Nuts; we have gone mad.