Got ukipped?

But first a note on Royal Society voting. The blogster went to great lengths to come up with an image for really bad customer service in the post "New NEW Deutsche Telekom slogan". A form with a single checkbox for excellent customer service seemed like good satire to us.

Only to see with wide eyed wonder that the single checkbox for "Yes" is standard voting procedure in the Royal Society.

A tip of the hat to you, my friends.

There was some other voting in the UK, and on this occasion they must have used multiple checkboxes because Ukip got enough votes to scare the other parties.

What happened?

It's really simple, actually. If you play with fire long enough, someone gets burned.

The "tea party" back in the U.S., the various populist right parties in Europe, you, dear conservative friends, asked for them. Maybe not all that consciously, but do yourselves a favor and check in your front yard before you become apoplectic about the wave of brown and black sludge.

My fellow conservatives, how could you have missed the fact that what we generally call "the right" has a position so much stronger than "the left". We can only surmise that you were so busy fighting leftist windmills, you forgot what you have. 

You have all the money you ever need, the handful of liberal wealthy folks cannot make a dent in it. You hold the power in the government institutions that run the country. Yet, you get bent out of shape when the judicial branch tries to uphold the most basic rights (not to torture, some semblance of a trial).   
So many voters cast their ballots for you in clear violation of that mythical "self interest" still taught in schools.
You are on the path to kick the EU's behind after a generation of trash talk. You'll get your secret courts and the privatization of everything.

The best of all, we can even show our humanitarian side in the various conflicts around the globe and bring home that man from Gitmo, maybe even before they ship a body bag. Learn the right lessons from China (New World Discovered!), and hey presto.

It's all good, and don't worry about the Germans, they'll vote conservative again this fall.