Who's Faking the News Now?

I was not familiar with the term "bollard", but I was pretty sure that a bullock was another word for a steer (castrated bull), so I looked both words up.  I was right about the bullock, and I found that a bollard is either "1:A post of metal or wood on a wharf around which to fasten mooring lines." or "3: Any of a series of short posts set at intervals to delimit an area (as a traffic island) or to exclude vehicles."  Definition 2 just said "BITT 1", which doesn't make any sense to me. The structures I saw in my news app didn't seem to resemble any of that, but they did say that they were being used to replace barriers that have previously been installed to exclude both pedestrian and vehicular traffic.  If you have seen any of the border photos that have been recently been published, you might agree with me that those things look like jailhouse bars, but by no stretch of the imagination do they look anything like bullocks.

I don't think the Brits want to get out of the Common Market, they want to get out of the European Union, which subsumed the Common Market a long time ago.  Perhaps they want to go back to the old Common Market days, but the EU people won't allow that.  Teresa May seems to have negotiated some kind of compromise deal, but I understand that she's having a hard time selling it to Parliament.  In the British system, if a Prime Minister can't get Parliament to approve one of their important agendas items, they dissolve Parliament and resign.  Then a new Parliament is elected, and they appoint a new Prime Minister.  If we had something like that here, Trump would be history by now.

For a long time there has been a movement among the Yoopers to secede from Michigan and form a new state, which they intend to call "Superior".  I don't know if anybody is serious about it or if it's one of those tongue-in-cheek things, but I think it would make more sense for the UP and the Northern LP to join together and kick the Southern LP out of Michigan.  Either move would be illegal under the US Constitution, but there would be nothing to prevent it if the federal government went out of business.   Another way we could shut them down is by calling a constitutional convention, but it would take 2/3 of the state legislatures to do that, and 3/4 of them to ratify anything the convention comes up with.  If we could get that many people in this country to agree on anything  we wouldn't need to shut down the feds.

Which brings us to the alleged efforts of the Russians to destabilize the Western democracies.  Well, the US seems to be pretty unstable right now, and it's mostly being caused by the shenanigans of the federal government.  Shutting it down for real might make us more stable not less.  If not, we could always call a constitutional convention and start all over again.