Helen Mirren for President

It wasn't just cathartic, it was 'super cathartic.'

The 22-year old pop singer's breakup with her 24-year old boyfriend, that is.

But she got a song out of it, apparently, and an lp reviewed in Rolling Stone.

Meantime, 'right to work' forces gather their money in the big corporate oligarchic mosh-pit and distribute it to candidates of their choice who espouse the 'right to work' ethic and promise to pass laws in their home states that will help break the unions.

It can't happen here, not in such a liberal state. This state is actually working, you can hear the train whistle at midnight and in the morning see all the pipes being outfitted for continuous filling and re-filling. The workers seem happy.

But maybe too happy, or more happy than they have a right to be.

The whole big 'it can't happen here' scenario has begun playing all over again in state capitals around the country: union busting draped in the American flag, labor vs. ownership, the working stiffs literally fighting an Empire that's gaining members day-by-day and whose puppeteers fly in boatloads of cash by private jet (courtesy of The Supreme Court) to finance their candidates de jour.

God save the Queen! The right to work indeed! Seeing a beautiful woman like Helen Mirren play Elizabeth is catharsis enough for the time being.