Dude.  Adam Sandler is starring in a feature-length Hanukkah cartoon?  Can the apocalypse be far away?

Perhaps not.  Anna Nicole has a hit show based on her wack-assed life.  She was all used up, had her fifteen minutes, and her star is rising again, even if we are laughing at her ass.

And then, despite a horrid economy, a warmongering attitude, and an inability to think for himself, my fellow voters in this country gave George W. Bush, Jr. a carte blanche to continue as-is.  We have made it easier for him to get what he wants by removing any system of checks and balances. 

It's not surprising to me that Sandler is once again cashing in on his Jewish-ness, or that Anna Nicole is a media whore, and it in no way shocks me that the people of this country would vote for the nearest Republican. 

After all, we obviously aren't the smartest people around.  We have disclaimers on every product you can buy: my new cable box has a disclaimer telling me not to plug a toaster into it!  Don't use hairdryers in the bathtub, and that hot coffee?  It's HOT, dude.

I don't want to come across as an intellectual snob (that's why I leave all the typos in... yeah... that's why!) and condemn The Stupidity Of America, because Heaven knows that I love pop culture as much, maybe more than the average person.  But I also read such heady things as National Review and the Congressional Record.  I know what goes on in Congress, and when I see who is stirring shit, or doing something I disagree with, I vote accordingly.

Here are a couple of things that might come out of this election:

• The Democrats will finally rally.  They will give us appealing candidates and voting will not be about choosing the lessor evil.  They will work on getting minorities and women to the polls and will make their platforms known.  They will, in short, get their shit together, and make themselves appealing to the masses.
• The Republicans will have NOBODY to blame for the further tanking of the economy and when the bodybags start coming home from Iraq, it will be hard to blame the Dems for that, too.  That should affect public opinion, huh?

Then again, never, ever count on the American masses to "get it"  They haven't so far.

Maybe the Bachelor could run for office.  Stranger things have happened.  We elected an actor to be President whose most popular costar was a monkey.