I had hoped to have posted by now the definitive answer as to who is going to win the Presidential race—Bush or Kerry. But my tea leaves have been recalcitrant, and I have had to sacrifice a goat. I cannot write much now, as I am up to my elbows in entrails, but I believe I have seen a letter form in the duodenum. Yes, I'm almost sure of it—it's a duodenal "e."

More tomorrow.