The Green Man is not a great watcher of late night talk shows which he largely regards as fatuous and a vehicle for starlets in skimpy clothing to promote their latest film, not that that is necessarily a bad thing, except, of course, where they are bordering on anorexia which so many seem to be these days.

The shows we see in Australia are almost exclusively taken from the USA and sadly we are approaching a US election. This means that we are to be subject to excruciatingly pathetic spectacle of George W Bush attempting to be "chatty" with David Letterman and/or Jay Leno. No matter what your view of GWBs efforts in running the economic and military powerhouse that is the USA, no-one can accuse him of being a raconteur.

Inexplicably, these attempts at spontaneous social interaction are viewed with great approval by the American citizenary. During his previous presidential campaign he appeared on David Letterman's show. In the next week his popularity slumped with non-viewers from 58.5% to 55.5%. Amongst Letterman viewers, on the other hand, his approval rose 3% in that week. The Green Man can only attribute it to the skimpy skirt and low cut top he was wearing at the time. The University of Washington that carried out this research failed to factor this into their analysis. A gaping hole in their research in The Green Mans opinion.

Read their research here.