For God's Sake, Change the Channel

If you turned on the news at all this March (I know, it's almost asking too much, Heil TiVO), you'd probably have noticed that almost everywhere in the world there is some restless erection. I mean election. Which is basically the same. Aren't politicians always "working hard", clutching their mikes, (and maybe later upstairs, their Mikes), impassioned, with what looks like phallic rapture? Yes they do, but I digress.

Elections, like erections, are often worked "hard" on, yet equally often disappoint. They disappointed in Spain, where Zapatero's Socialist Worker's party, after a boring campaign, won practically by default. They will likely disappoint in America, where even Republicans now grudgingly vote Hillbama, all frowny faced that, to date, there hasn't been a bible thumping showdown, and half expecting the flip-flopping McCain to announce that he is in fact, a woman. And a covert Democrat. And Jewish.

Yet for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free in Malaysia, they probably didn't disappoint , where the Opposition quadrupled their seats in Parliament, giving dissenters to the mighty National Front a louder voice. And by louder voice I mean a freaking megaphone. This was an unprecedented result which shocked millions. Which leads me to the conclusion that erections and elections have yet another thing in common - an unexpected twist makes things a lot more fun. Who says politics isn't sexy? Politicians on the other hand....for God's sake change the damn channel. I gotta eat.