We had an election this week (you might have noticed.) Supporters of the guy who didn’t win got a bit, um, unhinged. My only real challenge was narrowing down the WTF to a few choice examples. Finding a winner was not so hard, though.

First, some words for Republicans threatening to move to Canada, via Americans Against the Tea Party:

Yes, a Galtian wonderland Canada is not.

The Grand Prize, though, goes to teenage Kristen Neel, who may have encountered this week’s sharpest learning curve with her stated desire to move to Australia (via the Global Secular Humanist Movement):

No media establishment, it would seem, was more amused by this than the Australian media. Neel’s folly appeared in The Age and the Courier-Mail.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who has held that office since June 24, 2010, sounds like quite the bad-ass. She certainly has neither time nor patience for the more sexist elements of the government.

I hope Ms. Neal has learned something from this little kerfuffle. Two lessons that spring to mind:

1. Australia is a more complicated place than you might think. Plus, it is full of creatures that are eager to kill you.

2. The internet sur does have a way of magnifying our little goofs, doesn’t it?