So the verdict is in, and the Obama & Biden (Biden? Who's he?) dream team are in, with the biggest democratic vote % in, erm, lots and lots of years - 364 vs 162 electoral college votes, and 52.5% vs 46.2% of the popular vote. Whoop. But that's still no license to let Palin ride easy. After all, she may not be on the verge of presidency any more - well, not for 8 years or so, but she still is in control of something one imagines.

Let's laugh at her for a bit. A couple of comedians from Quebec managed to get on the phone to Ms Palin her very self, and using their best dodgy French accents made out that they were indeed President Sarkoz. He runs France, for any non-Europeans. Check it:

Battering around the news today is Russell Brand quitting the BBC and Jonathon Ross being suspended for "prank calling" Andrew Sachs - mostly (only?) famous for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers. It was so world-shatteringly disastrous that even Gordon Brown felt it necessary to take a few minutes off ruining the planet to pass condemnatory comment.

In case anyone was wondering exactly what was said, given the BBC news at 10 is unsurprisingly not making it too clear – here's Youtube springing to the rescue.

Probably NSFW the Poorhouse supposes, in that all this kerfuffle is going on about it.

Here’s part 1.

Click a bit of "Read more" for part 2 below.