If you plan to vote on November 7th, please vote in as many Democrats as you can to Congress and the Senate. I’m not making this plea because I like or hate either party. I make it because I believe wholeheartedly in Governmental Gridlock. Let me explain:

When the executive, legislative, and judicial branches are all run by the same party, laws get passed and approved with impugnity, since everyone has the same agenda and beliefs.

When our branches of government have conflicting agendas and beliefs, only truly important, bipartisan legislation - usually with tons of discussion and compromise - gets approved.

If everyone in Washington, DC has to work much harder to get things done, they tend to think much harder about what it is they are trying to achieve.

Hence, I prefer it when a Republican President has to deal with a Democratic Congress and vice-versa, where everyone involved is forced to ask themselves “Is all this extra work worth it?” before they proceed.

Plus, having to work harder makes their lives perfectly miserable there on the Hill. (Bonus!)

My name is Diva and I approve this message.

I changed my mind at the last minute Saturday night and went out as a Sneerleader.

I clipped blue and black hair extensions on to look like pony tails; I had my yellow contacts and double fangs on; and I wore a black pleated skirt, fish nets (arms and legs), platform boots, and an actual cheerleader shirt with the words “Go Die!” on it.

I’m told it looked hot, but there will be no photos posted, as the ones we took turned out either too blurry or just plain crappy.

You’ll just have to imagine it for yourself.

I haven’t watched last night’s episode yet, but I spent the weekend re-watching previous ones. Granted, I’m not as hooked on it as I was Twin Peaks or Carnivale, but it’s still really good … quite unlike Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which released so much sap in their latest episode they could have made syrup enough to handle an entire Sunday-after-church crowd at IHOP. (It has been summarily removed from the TiVo.)

We’re still recording NBC’s other show about a weekly comedy program, 30 Rock, as it’s turned out to be funnier than anticipated. It’s good to find something fresh and entertaining in a sitcom since Lucky Louie has been cancelled. One of the show’s stars, Jim Norton, said as much at his show last Friday night.

You did it to us again, HBO. Way to go.

When I started this blahg, my intent was to leave pictures and video and such off of it. As you may have noticed, I’ve recently changed my mind on that. Maybe it’s that I run across so many interesting pictures and such elsewhere that I suddenly feel the need to share.

More likely it’s because I just upgraded the software I use here and found it easier to post them.

You say lazy, I say practical.

NASA, Nazis and JFK is a reprint … of a work originally published by “William Torbitt” (an admitted pen name) as Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal. Its thesis is that the John F. Kennedy assassination was supervised by a conspiracy including Werner von Braun, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Roy Cohn, and Ferenc Nagy, former Prime Minister of Hungary …

This most curious of all JFK assassination books traces an intricate set of links between Nazis, Hungarian politics, NASA, Roy Cohn, Clay Shaw, and David Ferrie … but never does clarify what motive drew all these groups and persons into one giant conspiracy to kill a president. There are dark hints, however, about faked moon landings, undisclosed Mars landings, Area 51, and “genetically created ‘aliens’,” suggestive of an unstated thesis that NASA is engaged in a different business than what we have been told.

Another wonderful entry from Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups by Robert Anton Wilson with Miriam Joan Hill.

By the way, if you missed the 9/11 conspiracy episode of South Park, try to catch it in repeats. It was one of the best commentaries I’ve seen on the people who really believe in conspiracy theories.

“What are you, retarded?”

A sigil is a symbol created for a specific magical purpose …… A sigil may have an abstract, pictorial or semi-abstract form. It may appear in any medium, physical or virtual, or only in the mind. Visual symbols are the most popular form, but the use of audial and tactile symbols in magick is not unknown.

The letters you are reading are symbols for the language we speak. Therefore, each post I make here is a kind of sigil, powered up with my belief that what I have to say is important enough to share with the world.

People who forward chain mail letters believe they need to forward them. They also believe that mild-to-terrible things will happen if the receiver doesn’t forward the letter as well. Hence, chain letters are a type of sigil, naturally imbued with the belief of the original writer plus a bit of power from everyone who believes enough - even if it’s only half-heartedly - to forward the letter on to others.

I don’t believe in the power of chain letters. I’ve never forwarded one and I’ve never so much as stubbed a toe because I refused to play along.

So, while there is power in belief, there isn’t much in a chain letter.

It only works if you believe in it.

Camping is a room in a two-star hotel.

It occurred to me yesterday that I have the perfect job for the average American suburban housewife: I plan and implement parties and events to occur every 4-6 weeks. Like a heavily-advertised, specifically-promoted party for all my friends and acquaintances.

Of course, I’ve done all this for other projects before - fetish troupe shows, leather events, etc. - but now it’s all for me. I do the work, I get the credit, not to mention the income. No more benevolent dictatorship, with input from all around me; now it’s all dictatorship.

Hi! I’m the bitch in charge! Damn fine to meet ya!

Of course this also means that if things go south for any reason, that’s also mine … but anyone scared of failure wouldn’t have survived this long in my shoes.

Plus, I get to wear all those business suits and such that have been hanging in my closet for a couple of years, gathering dust.

Off to call the caterer.

Doesn’t matter if your politics are conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, every American needs to know:

The writ of habeus corpus has been recently modified by the Bush administration.

What that means is that if you are picked up and accused of being a terrorist, enemy combatant, or giving money to charities who are found to be giving money to terrorist organizations, you may be held without charge or legal recourse.

Let me repeat that: On the accusation alone, you may be held for an unspecified amount of time by your own government, without access to an attorney or anything else which would allow you to say “What the f@ck is going on?!”

Now there are those who will say that if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Tell that to the people who were blacklisted during the Red Scare by Senator McCarthy in the 1950’s, or to the Japanese-Americans who were interred during WWII.

Our government can and does make mistakes with its information and sometimes the intelligence it has gathered - whether on a person, a dictator, or an entire country - is wrong.

For the record, I listen to Al Franken and Rush Limbaugh about equally. I also watch Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann. For the right hand to know what the left hand is doing, sometimes you have to bear listening to the views with which you most disagree.

Now, that said, the following video is a Special Comment made by Keith Olbermann on his MSNBC program. If you’re liberal, watching this will be like preaching to the choir; if you’re conservative, try to read between Mr. Olbermann’s anger.

Every American should be as angry - or more so - at the loss of our right to face our accusers.

Thanks to the folks on MySpace who posted the video.

Isn’t Olbermann dreamy?