Bush spent his 59th birthday riding a bike...into a policeman.

[bufffbison]

http://www.anorak.co.uk/news.cfm?id=168296

And the Mirror would have run with the by now familiar news that Bush is no more adept at riding a bike than a fish is of running the most powerful nation on Earth.

George Bush may well walk in the manner of a man who’s just stepped off his horse, but it’s another kind of saddle that’s giving him jip.

Bush spent his 59th birthday riding a bike...into a policeman. This odd form of celebration left the policeman shaken and the leader of the free world with cuts on an arm and hand.

The Mirror has a shot of Bush’s injured fingers, all bandaged and scraped, and hears him say: “It goes to show I should act my age.”

But on a day like this, when humour is thin on the ground, we’re pretty glad he didn’t...

[lebkuchen]

1. You know damn well there were plenty of photos taken of the fall itself

on the Chimp's 59th birthday, probably meant to be used later to liken Bush-on-Bike to Einstein-on-Bike *chuckle*.

Of course, those photos were immediately repressed for fear that posters might liken Bush on his ass to his ass-backward foreign policy. What we saw in print instead was smiling, laughing pictures of a chimpanzee, underscoring, once again, Bushy control of the media.

[Chipper Chat]

2. "Slow down...you move too fast"

"you've got to make your hubris last." Just
"kickin down..the Dem-O-Crats"
"Looking for fun and feelin up Gannon."

(apologies to Paul and Art, and the 59th St. Bridge)

[0rganism]

3. Does bush have a license for that bicycle?

'course, we should be understanding; after all, it takes serious skills for an American to ride a bike on the left side of the road. Who knows, maybe with a little practice, W could be the next Lance Armstrong!