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A quick post just to say that I’ve made an astonishing discovery: according to Google, nobody anywhere on the internet has yet described George W. Bush as America’s “first Gonzo President”. The reason I can be sure of this is that, according to Google, nobody has ever used the phrase “first Gonzo President” at all. Not to describe Kennedy, high on uppers while playing nuclear peekaboo with the Russians. Not Nixon, emerging from a fog of horse tranquilisers to find that he’s somehow travelled to China. And not Dubya, clearing the world of terror with the same wild abandon as he “clears brush on his ranch”.

How is this possible?

Well, if it falls to me to rectify it, then rectify it I shall: in all seriousness, George W. Bush is the very first Gonzo President of the United States of America. There, I said it. As to why I said it – I think that’s for a longer and undoubtedly more complex post, about my sudden, Damascene realisation that Bush is actually a crazy, insane, beautiful goddamn genius. The man is almost certainly right about everything, but wearied and petty drudges like us are just too small to see it.