Thursday April 02, 2009 at 19:51

In Fairness to the Queen

  • Prince Philip bet her £300,000 that she wouldn’t hug Michelle Obama.
  • She might never have seen a tall black woman in person before. She probably thinks that’s the way you’re supposed to treat a visitor from Ganymede.
  • She was simply greeting a fellow traveler on the Road of the Overanalyzed for Their Fashion Choices When That Is Not Repeat Not at All What They Really Care About. If the cameras had not been present they would have bumped handbags.
  • April Fools, natch. The world media just got totally pwned by QEII_1926.