The Guardian has hired The Medium Lobster from the brilliant and incredibly irregular comedy politics blog Fafblog to write a column for them; the debut effort (a Monster Manual of vice-presidential contenders) is hilarious: Ah, the US vice-presidency! From visiting second-tier foreign dignitaries to waiting for the president to die, this linchpin of the modern democratic nation-state is a role that can't be filled by just anyone.
Indeed, this is a job that calls for nothing less than the most highly-cultivated political window-dressing money can buy.
Who has the experience? Who's pretty – but not so pretty they kind of look like a slut? Whose name will fit comfortably on a bumper sticker in a garish red-white-and-blue font? America's next vice..
