'This is all to do with the learning culture in schools...a consequence of a child-centred education system which tells people they can become pop stars, high court judges or...infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having the natural ability. What am I to say to Elaine Day? She is so PC she frightens me rigid.'

Britain's Prince Charles in a memo regarding Elaine Day, a personal assistant on his staff who asked whether people at her job level might ever rise to more senior positions. (via Globe and Mail)

By Ashlee Vance in Chicago

Published Thursday 4th November 2004 22:27 GMT

The very citizen journalists who very nearly pushed John Kerry into the White House have continued with their stellar work, uncovering a shocking photo naming policy on a shared Netscape/CNN site.

Citizen journalists traveling to this page discovered a dubious name for the file of the photo showing a lovable Laura Bush holding her ape-faced hubby. Until late last night, the photo was unpleasantly called asshole.jpg. It has now been changed to the more innocuous georgelaura135.jpg. The old photo page now chucks up an error message.