Monarchy Reform? I'll have to read that when I have time, but how the hell do you reform a monarchy beyond what the U.K. has with its toothless institution? The monarch and her family are sort of hereditary old-age pensioners, layabout dole pullers, and upperclass-twitty Sloane Rangers. You might as well pick a family by lottery each year and give them a lavish lifestyle, castles to live in -- a democratic, everyone-gets-a-shot sort of royalty. But to argue that it should just be for the crypto-Kraut Windsors and their seemingly endless brood of paparazzi martyrs, you have to make a case for divine right of some sort. Otherwise, why them? After all, strange women lying in ponds and distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.