This might sound like a stupid question, but you have to understand that American politics doesn’t seem at all clear to me, or it seems, to the media in England.  That, as Rumsfeld would say is “Old England” rather than “New England”.  England (the old one) is not a state.  Oh, sure we speak English, [...]

During the presidential run off, I wrote a poem about how stupid it all looks.  I guess it’s reasonably safe to post it here now that it is all over.  Most of the people who read it didn’t get it until I told them it was satire about the run off.  Then they thought it [...]