The British have an odd, backward country. This was no more apparent than yesterday, when their Parliament – by a margin of 13 – voted down a non-binding resolution to clear the way for PM David Cameron to throw himself into Barack Obama’s lap (face first, ala Tony Blair and his pal George II) and join in on a little Syrian action. This comes on the heels of a YouGov survey for British tabloid “The Sun” that showed 74% of Britains oppose any UK participation in another American folly in the Middle East. Even more strangely, Cameron then said, “okay, never mind then.” And that was it – no war for you, you poofy English bastards!

Clearly, this could never happen in America. Think about it. The people oppose a war, the government votes with the people (albeit by a much smaller margin), and their leader respects the results of the vote.

These people obviously have no idea how a democracy’s supposed to work.

Here, 50% of people oppose intervention and 80% think Obama ought to at least go through the charade of getting approval from Congress first. So naturally, there’ll be no vote, and if there was one, it would be a rubber stamp, as the hawks (chicken and otherwise) are already in bed with “liberals” (within the government, like Nancy Pelosi, or in the liberal media, like Eugene Robinson, Dexter “this time it’s different” Filkins, and the NY Times).

Because, hey, when our team does it, it’s OK. Having not had a pay raise since, um, I’m not even sure how long – 2010, I think – and just (literally – this week’s check) having my health insurance premium increase by 89%, and with about a 2% pay cut (in the form of the “Deficit Reduction Program” – aka, furlough) about to take effect next pay period, all on the heels of the 3% increase in the payroll tax, and facing the school tax bill next week, all I wanna know is how much this is gonna cost me.

Maybe NPR will do a report on that, now that their week long in-depth series on dumplings has come to an end.

In other news, the DOJ has officially ended the 40-yr War on Drugs. OK, well, not really. They just said the DOJ won’t sue Washington and Colorado for their new laws legalizing pot. But if individual US Attorneys want to prosecute people, they’re still good to go. Still, I suppose it’s progress

Hey, NY, let’s jump on the pot wagon and legalize it already. I mean, I’m glad we got out there on the whole gay marriage thing, but how about passing a law for me one time?