Election Hypocrisy

Apparently the United States is expressing concern over the lack of direct elections here in Hong Kong. Pretty rich for a nation who's current president was decided, not by a vote, but by a court. And what about all those closed-source proprietary voting machines being brought in? I'm guessing it'll be a Bush win in 2004, by a bigger margin than ever seen before in a US Presidential election.

I was in Dymocks, the bookstore, just now and I noticed a biography of Laura Bush. The back cover described her as the 'perfect first wife and first mother', and lauded her stunning advice: "hug your children". Revolutionary stuff. I was glad I was wearing a mask.