Thursday, June 23, 2016

The cynic speaks

Today's vote in the UK is properly known as a plebiscite.  Ambrose Bierce included a definition for that in his Devil's Dictionary:
PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
I guess that we'll know soon.

3 comments:

ASM826 said...

SO the people of the U.K. have enough freedom to decide by vote what larger organization they want to belong to. There's an irony here so large that we should go back and just apologize to Jefferson Davis.

Differ said...

Perhaps, regardless of outcome of that vote, we could exchange the illegals here for the 30 million Brits who want to leave the EU but who will otherwise forced to live in a polarized nation with crappy weather.....

Will said...

Differ:

can we chose the gun friendly ones?