A Good Breakfast ?

Just when you think you have some idea all figured out, along comes a story that 'gob-smacks' you.
Background: I watched a TV special last week on PBS about the joys of having breakfast, at a series of small family-run restaurants across the U-S-A, from Ohio to Oregon.

As I have been celebrating breakfast since I was a 'wee tad' (which, Dear Reader, was many years ago) — at the insistence of my Mother — I was delighted to identify with those folks.
I also began to recall the childhood and current ’treat' of going out for a good breakfast.
Not for a minute, Dear Reader, was it a case of getting away from a poor breakfast, or having none at all.
Au contraire.

The Magna Carta

For those of us, Dear Reader, who studied English History in school, the following terms are still familiar, even after all these years: ‘June 15, 1215,’ ‘King John,’ ‘the Runnymede.’
Today marks in the 800th anniversary of the ‘Magna Carta,’ or ‘Great Charter.’

Why was this document so important?
It is considered as the basis of the rule of law, not merely a promise made by a king but a right possessed bv the people.
In the early 13th century, King John was not England's ‘Mr. Nice Guy.’
He ruled using the principle of ‘force and will,’ and considered himself above the Law.
He kept asking for more money and soldiers from the barons, who actually ran the administration. They even had to do his work for him, by collecting the tax money and recruiting the soldiers!