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A Confederacy of Dunces II
(A short Story for those short of mind)

On February 24, the year of our Lord, two thousand nine AD, the new King gave a speech in chamber to the Parliament that was broadcast throughout the land. It was eloquent in its delivery, rich in its detail, and able to combine both caution and hope in its message.

Although the Kings Speech was met with some jeers-for you see members of the Opposition Party (OP) were also present in chamber-it was mostly received with resounding cheers and deafening applause.

For it was a message for a people that had suffered far too long under a cruel eight years of the OP's dominance, mismanagement, and outright assault on the rule of law.

As is common in the Republic-whose name henceforth in this tale will be referred to as the Kingdom of Fairness, the Party in Power (PIP), had to send an advance copy of the Kings speech to the OP so that it could prepare a rebuttal.

And so it was done.

But whom would the OP put forth to refute this new popular King?

Not to be outmatched by the PIP the OP found a rival Prince of its own. He, like the new King was really, really, bright. Not bright in color but bright in the ways of learning, for he too had not so bright skin just like the new King.

And even though the Princes family did not hail from the infamous Continent of Darkness as the new King's had. He too had parents who had migrated from a land of people dark of skin and very, very poor of currency.

So it was that after the chamber had emptied and the new King had left its great Hall, the Kingdom of Fairness waited with baited breath for the Princes response.

In a naked room, void of humans, life or ideas the Dark Prince emerged from behind a large pole. Standing next to a flag that matched his neck attire he began to speak.

And hence to, therefore and forever more is where the similarities between The Dark Prince and the new King began to untwine.

For the Dark Prince did not pepper his speech with high- minded rhetoric, intelligent and thoughtful ideas, rich with nuance or sense of purpose.

Perhaps it is because the Dark Prince knew on some deeper level that his constituents, to whom he was really speaking, would not understand such lofty rhetoric containing long sentences, words with more than three syllables, or possessing too many consonants and vowels, making him a very, very, bright Prince indeed.

Instead the Dark Prince decided to deliver the message of his Opposition Party in the form of a fairytale. Where he ended

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