On the day that the members of the Electoral College officially meet to cast their votes, John Kerry has made his tinfoil-hat-wearing demographic very happy by writing a letter asking for eleven recount actions, including visual inspection of the 92,000 ballots for which no vote for president was recorded and independent evaluation of voting machine programming and calibration. More from Google News. All parties involved say it won't change the results of the election -- but of course they'd say that.

Now, of course it's true that in 99% of all possible worlds, nothing at all comes of any of this. But in that one...that sweet, sweet one...