Extra

Evening Extra was full of an inordinate amount of people blaming the government for snow. They strangely decided to include a reading of one person's off-the-shelf text saying 'if they can't predict snow in an hour how can they say anything about climate change?' Answer: because there's a difference between weather and climate, as any fool should know.

Anyway, enough kvetching. The highlight of the show was good friend Mel punditifying on post-Iowa prospects for New Hampshire. A nice brief discussion, only marred by Karen Patterson asking the inevitable 'who's going to win the presidential election?' question. Hear Mel struggle to find a polite version of 'how in hell should I know?' here at about 2:13.

Update: Mel has some interesting things to say over on Accountability Bloke

Have to admit I find the

Have to admit I find the endless and voluminous coverage of the USA elections very tedious. All I want to know is who won, how they're going to wreck the country (and various other countries) and whether the election was rigged. Cynical, moi? I was listening to Any Questions today and the panellists were all yakking away about the strength of the candidates and how exciting or unexciting they were but none of them had the slightest idea what Barak Obama's policies actually were (or Huckabee's). A complete non-discussion.

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