Danny Boyle has declined a knighthood.

He's about being "an equal citizen," he says. Who else has declined a knighthood? Among others: David Bowie, musician Francis ...

"Kate Middleton's pregnancy: 10 stories I don't want to read."

Aw, come on. We're not supposed to amuse ourselves with the reproduction of the royals?

"The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby..."

"... St James's Palace has announced."

"Ann Romney slammed for $990 Shirt, Michelle Obama praised for $6,800 jacket."

What a sharply tailored double standard! But let's take a closer look. Michelle Obama was consorting with royalty and representing the U...

"Look, if you colonists have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own."

I didn't write this on my own. In fact, I didn't write it at all. Meade wrote this: Lord North: Look, if you colonists have been su...

"What else an one expect from a Republican magazine, they probably dislike themselves."

Outrage over photoshopping Kate Middleton's teeth for a magazine cover about how something's "rotten" in Great Britain. B...

"Nothing of importance happened today."

Wrote King George III in his diary, July 4, 1776. Not. He didn't even keep a diary. From a list of "10 Things You Didn't Know A...

"I think if I work very hard, I should be able to gather the fruits of my labor."

"And I think if you’re not about to work, you should get minimal and leave me alone. I think if you don’t wear a helmet and you fall of...

One year into Obama's presidency, David Brooks wrote "he has come to seem like the sovereign on the cover of 'Leviathan'..."

"... the brain of the nation to which all the cells in the body and the nervous system must report and defer." Brooks is talking a...

"TIL the practice of 'ace-high' in card games first gained popularity after the French Revolution..."

"... it represented the promotion of the 'common man' over royalty and the nobility." TIL = today I learned (chez Reddit )...

"Barack Obama was probably not aware that he was doing anything unusual when making a toast 'to the Queen' and then continuing with a short speech."

BBC explains: According to protocol, however, he should have stopped after the toast. The band, taking its cue from the word Queen, struck u...

I find toast-botch too painful to mock.

What if you gave a toast and nobody raised their glass with you, because they were in the middle of a solemn ritual that you had thought was...

"The tanned Duchess of Cambridge blew Michelle Obama out of the water."

Insane Daily Mail headline. It's supposed to relate to the fashion: For their first meeting yesterday, Kate wore a simple but stylish £...

"At least bin Laden lived to see the Royal Wedding..."

Oh, yes ... and to hear Obama's marvelous comic routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

A Drudge photo juxtaposition, presented for your intepretation.

You've got Obama, turning to his right, gleefully chomping a chocolate-dipped strawberry, with the heading "Obama Ready to Eat the ...

Cake...

... detail.

"I pronounce that they be man and wife together, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

The wedding is accomplished. The bride wore a dress that had been designed by a designer. Mr. Bean was there.

"Let's play dress up. Let's pretend... these are special people..."

"... That's what the royal family is. It's a huge game of pretend." Jerry Seinfeld, asked about Kate and William's wed...

Royal wedding in the offing.

Do you care? Reaction? Lovely. A ray of light in this somber world. I don't care but don't begrudge the British their sentimental am...

"I wanted to express something in the outer world that I feel inside... We seem to have lost that understanding of the whole of nature and the universe as a living entity."

Prince Charles feels a sense of purpose. Is that really so terrible ?