I spend a fair bit of time in San Francisco. Unlike Sydney, and London, and Tokyo, where I also spend a bit of time, San Francisco has a lot of homeless people. People who stand on corners with bits of cardboard that have messages on them like, "Out of work, down on my luck. Please give me a dollar".

Now I don't mean to make fun in any way of these poor unfortunate people that either the system has let down or they themselves have let down.

But I do want to pay attention to the poor unfortunate American satirists. Look at poor Will Durst, one of the finest, most intelligent satirists around.  Click here for something that he wrote a week ago about the G8 and President Bush.

American politics is already a satire of itself. Even a really clever guy like Will Durst can only report on the facts as they are! If this keeps on a lot of clever guys are going to be out on the street - how can they do their schtick when things are so crazy already!