At this stage it’s looking like the American electorate have chosen to give George W Bush a ‘bloody nose’ in the mid-term elections, over Iraq and the countless other imbecile acts of his presidency. I note that they’ve done this in the manner pioneered by British voters, i.e., by re-electing the architect of the disaster with a comfortable majority, then giving his party a kicking at the local level.

Now there are fears that Bush may become a ‘lame duck’ President. Whatever will become of his grand anti-Enlightenment project?

In any case, I’m relieved to see that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been re-elected in California.

Regular reader will know that we’ve been running a series unfunny stories about hypothetical California Governors and how they would deal with the fallout from the Esperanza wildfire. What started it all was the photograph of Arnie lifting dumbbells while inspecting some of the wreckage caused by the fire.

Here’s the final story in this series. We promise.

You can now print the whole caboodle out. These pdfs are doing some sterling business in Japan….