Gung Hay Fat Choy

Osama bin Laden will finally give up, Taiwan will join China and Americans will re-elect George Bush - so Chinese astrologers predict for the Year of the Monkey.

They say be ready for a time of tumult and trickery from Thursday when the two-week transition from the old Year of the Sheep begins.  article

How totally freaky. We've been in the year of the sheep. That's been pretty darned obvious, now, hasn't it? And the year of the monkey? The smirking chimp?

That doesn't mean re-election. They've made a mistake. And the mistake is this: there wasn't an election of George Bush in the first place, so there can't be a re-election.

At any rate, I have no doubt this will be the year of the monkey, but November is three-quarters of the way through it. And that last quarter turn will be a doozie. 2005 is the year of the rooster. So....Howard Dean? Oh, no...that could still be Double-peeeeeew.

The reason Dean dropped in the Iowa caucus, I'd suggest, is most likely because of his disparaging remarks about the process a few years ago. There was a lot of press about that, and Iowans are nothing if not proud of their name. And to still have third place after insulting those Iowans is a pretty fair feat.

I tried briefly to find a video clip of the Dean passion faux pas in Iowa. Sorry.

So, anyway....Year of the monkey.

Planet of the apes.

Right on schedule.