Boris Johnson, dahlink, that Colorful No-Goodnik

What's this, a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon?

No, there's cursing. And that isn't Boris Badenov riding along on a bicycle, it's the cartoonish BORIS JOHNSON, the Mayor of London.

Sad, isn't it, that sometimes the mayor of a great city is a great big pain in the ass.

Being the mayor isn't enough, he has to be a "celebrity" and be "colorful," and in the worst ways.

"Fuck Off and Die, and Not in that order!"

How clever, Boris. It made it over to the States. Is it that we've never heard a mayor curse? Or be so witless? Or both? And not in that order?

Witless cursing. Cursing witlessly. Either way.

There's nothing wrong, in these rude times, with a blowhard classless asshole politician showing just how smug and obnoxious he can be. New York had Ed Koch. New Jersey has Chris Christie. While neither has proudly said "FUCK OFF" and refused even a mild apology for making old ladies tremble, this is the way the 21st Century is.

It's full of shitty mayors who think they're stars like Justin Bieber, and will behave that way.

I don't think even Piers Morgan would say something as stupid as Boris Johnson said, and be proud of it.

What's lost is the real issue, which is that despite hauling his lard on a bicycle, Johnson is ignoring the real problem of the Yuppie Uber fleet taking over from real cab drivers. (And yes, when Uber decimates the market, raising prices and forcing everyone to hail one on a cellphone and no other way).

Uber ALLES.

It's one thing to flip off a heckler, or be cool and know "it goes with the territory" and simply grin, but this is something else.

"You're one of THEM," said the driver. And Johnson proved it, by telling the common man to FUCK OFF AND DIE. Cameron would've been proud.