FAIL

• Tiger Woods. For getting caught.
• Hanover’s Mark Hotchin. Escaping a hostile shareholder’s meeting by taking a wizz.
• Obama – finally committing  troops to A-stan in the style of Bush, then setting an arbitrary date to pull out.

WIN

• Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, for admitting the country can’t spend its way out of recession.
• The All Whites World Cup draw.
• Inheriting billions of dollars after living in a cave.

Parenting Fail

FAIL

• Security at the White House.
• Dubai (worryingly, their foreign liabilities are roughly the same as ours)
• Tiger Woods driving. On the road, not the fairway.
  

WIN

• Smartpay finally gets into the black.
• Those efficient Swiss, getting Polanski’s house ready for his impending house arrest
• Jaguar Landrover, also back in black.

FAIL

• Hone Harawira. Just fire the QC and leave politics – it’ll leave Parliament, Maori and the country better off.
• The All Blacks. Yes they won, but Carter had an awful game. Must do better!
• Hanover Finance – if Allied Farmers can pull their deal off.

WIN

• Julicer Pinot Noir.
• No more Oprah.
• Allied Farmers – if they can pull their deal with Hanover Finance off.