WELL, BACK IN LONDON

With the American elections just over a week away, Mrs. C encouraged me to post this picture of a statue of the Bard located in Leicester Square. Um, conspiracy theorists? Enemies of democracy? (Recall that another Englishman, Mr. Churchill, said that democracy is the worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others.)

We might also think of the sentence the playwright gave Puck, What fools these mortals be.             

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH...

...not in your hands. That's the famous slogan of M&Ms, sold in vast quantities at the company's store in London's Leicester Square. The photo is deliberately as over-saturated as the candy. From what we saw of the shopping bags up and down the street, the pellets were flying out the door.