ROYAL WEDDING

Now that the royal wedding is over, I've started thinking. Why were we so obsessed with it? Why does it matter to Americans what the royals are doing across the pond? I understand that there is a such thing as tradition but what does that have to do with us?

Here's the answer I came up with: We don't have royalty here. I never thought that we actually wanted that but, from the looks of how we acted in preparation of William and Kate's nuptials, maybe we do. Which is weird to me because in away we already the equivalent to royalty: Celebrities. We already have people that we can oooh and ahh about. I guess we're never satisified.