Humorous - US election

Couple of things I've come across this morning that made me laugh.

The sobering fact is that if Romney had won, with three places on the Supreme Court potentially up for grabs during his tenure, he could have changed the country's social landscape. According to exit polls, 68 per cent of single women voted to stop him - women who, I think it is safe to assume, voted partly out of a desire to retain governance of their own ovaries, rather than outsource them, say, to a Republican senator from Missouri.

This is as decisive a moment in feminism as there has been. Debates about where we are in a post-post-feminist world, how squeamish women are about calling themselves feminists, whether to wax or not to wax - all the tap-dancing that supposedly must be done these days to engage women in their own political interests - all of that fell away. Red or blue, left or right, ''career woman'' or ''homemaker'', they voted as one. Read more