h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If the US election campaign is getting you down, may I recommend 'The Borowitz Report' from the New Yorker? The headlines of Mr Borowitz's articles alone provide chuckles. Here's the one I found today, entitled 'Putin Cancels Campaign Event with Trump':

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-cancels-campaign-event-with-trump

Others include, but are not limited to:

Obama Reassures Foreign Tourists: "No Other American Man Is This Horrible"

Republican Party Could Recover as Early as 2096, Experts Say

Christie Calls Trump Genius for Plan to Burn Down White House and Collect Insurance

Gary Johnson Says His Favorite Foreign Leader Is Obi-Wan Kenobi

That last headline might require some explanation. Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party's candidate for president. Normally, nobody would pay attention to him (see previous journal on how many 'alternate' candidates we've got), but there's all this to-do about the chaos in the Republican Party... Anyway, Gary Johnson is geographically challenged, to say the least. He flubbed a question on what he would do about Aleppo by smiling smugly and saying, 'And what is Aleppo?' Maybe he thought it was a website or a new dance craze... Johnson is also reputed to have once stayed in his freezer to prove he could withstand the cold...he's the front-running 'third party' candidate...so we need the likes of Mr Borowitz.

Enjoy.

I think my favorite bumper sticker for this election is "Obi Wan Kenobi: He's Our Only Hope"

I love it.

I've just found something else h2g2ers might enjoy: a great piece by somebody named Vladimir Shelkov, published in 'International Policy Digest'. He claims Putin wants to buy back Alaska, and he challenges Trump to a game of Russian roulette.

ESL teachers will particularly enjoy the prose:

http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/10/11/putin-trump-alaska/

Trump and Clinton are certainly making history, only not the one that'll make for good reading in the future, or the immediate future as such

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37628345

only opinions

Oi! Dylan wins the Nobel Prize!

wrong thread. I just got so exited when I read this on the link gave us. It was only 9 minutes ago

What! Oh, no, no, no, no....this is definitely a sign of the apocalypse...

I thought you were kidding...

I like the tweet that went 'Okay, then Keith Richards for Chemistry...'