Well, Kevin Federline has finally done away with the farce and thrown his good-husband costume in the trash. First he demands large alimony payments from former wife and superstar singer Britney Spears, then he demands custody of the couple's two children.  Right.  The only way that will happen is if he has a four-hour sex tape to blackmail Britney with.   Oh, snap!  He does?

While many speculate whether or not such a tape exists, I think it's safe to say that despite K-Fed's unconscionable level of stupidity that he understands the threat doesn't have a chance of scaring Britney into giving him what he wants unless she actually believes him, so it would be a rather poor negotiating tactic if she knew she'd never done any such thing.

On the other hand, perhaps it's actually a clever ruse to stir up media attention around himself.  Personally, I think this is unlikely because frankly he's had plenty of media attention and he's still got no money.  Even Kevin Federline is smart enought to figure out the math there.

Whether he is smart enough to understand the pre-nup he signed is likely a much more pertinent question.  Britney's lawyers reportedly put together a pretty hefty pre-nuptial agreement and normally issues like privacy receive extensive coverage — which would legally prevent poor K-Fed from ever releasing said tape and making money from it.

Of course, this isn't to say that the tape might become "stolen" and at least he could have a bit of revenge on the evil ex-wife who wouldn't give him millions of dollars he didn't earn or remotely deserve. If his brilliant plot to do a gender-reversed divorce coal-raking backfires, as seems likely, "Someone else" could release the sex tape on the internet, an act which Mr. Federline would have no control over.

Sadly, in this case I feel compelled to back Ms. Spears fully because Federline is just really such a pathetic loser who needs to be put in his place.  However little respect I have for Britney, at least she earned her money and  if there is one thing I dislike more than stupid people it's people who think their "entitled" to special treatment, extra rights, or other people's money.

Mr. Federline, go earn an honest living. Please.

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Donald Rumsfeld, one of the most popular men of this millenium, has resigned today according to President W.  This move on the part of the Secretary of Defense caught many off-guard after years of calling for his resignation and being ridiculed by the administration.  Many believe it is part of an overall strategy by the Republicans to make the most of the recent power shift in Congress (and possibly the Senate) by placating the Democrats and others among their harsher critics.

One thing is for certain, whether one agreed with the man's policies or not.  Today this country has lost a certain irony one can only achieve by waging war against a man you shook hands with on camera.  We've lost one of the wittiest, crotechety and downright interesting press conference hosts ever to face CNN's correspondants. Mr. Rumsfeld, you will be missed.

Especially since Bush has a habit of replacing cabinet members with equally (if not moreso) undesirable people.  See: Attorney General.

And frankly, the press secretaries have gone straight to hell since Ari Fleischer.  Tony Snow's John Kerry-bashing bit about "I don't see where you would insert the word 'Us'" was simply the most pathetic thing I've seen on the News in a month or more, and that's saying something because it far-and-away beat out the stupidity even of Kerry's original "joke"

So once again, Don, good journies and may your replacement, former CIA chief Robert Gates, be at least half as fun to watch as you were, because I don't hear anything else about him I find remotely good. 

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This election is a joke.  Every election is a joke.  The Republicans and Democrats make a farce of Democracy and we're letting them.  Either you vote for one of them or you stay home, am I right?  New plan: Vote Libertarian.  It's the only third party that doesn't consistantly back one of the major party candidates (ahh… HELLO, "Green" party?) and it stands for what many Americans would consider the perfect ideal: Liberty for all.

Of course, they take it to the extreme but they're not going to win anyway, and if one or two did get elected this country would be a better place.  So vote Libertarian because at the very least maybe we can scare the Democrats and Republicans into delivering candidates that are worth voting for and at worst we'll elect a few people who are serious about democracy and liberty, and most important: They don't pander to lazy people.

Think about it, Republicans used to be about small government and fiscal responsibility.  These days their primary platform is pandering to laxy intellectuals, or as I like to call them, "Religious Fundementalists" thoughout the south and the mid-west.  These people can't be bothered to understand science because it's just so much easier for them, mentally and emotionally, to go with the easy answer: It's Magic! I mean… ummm… God did it! 

To these people it's completely unreasonable to suggest that evolution and God are not enemies, that they can in fact be tied together, because that would require too much thinking.  It's much easier to believe the earth is 5,000 years old and that the Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's 40-day flood because they don't have to use their brains.  Rather than discourage this stupidity, the Republican party thrives on it and encourages the spread of it because it means more votes for them.

But, ohhh… the Democrats.  They have long been guilty of unintentionally pandering to the lazy (e.g. welfare) with good intentions but they've gone too far in their attempts to market themselves recently.  Hillary Clinton's attack on "Grand Theft Auto" and other democrat initiatives (see: Tipper Gore) simultaneously absolve lazy parents from their responsibility to properly raise their children and attack freedom of speech through their attempts to regulate and censor sects of the media.

Of course, Clinton's opponent in the New York Senate "race" is running on a platform on six major issues, which includes his opposition to gay marriage.  Apparently when compiling a list of the top six things he wants to do to make this country better, denying equal rights to a subsect of U.S. citizens was number 4.  With candidates like these, no wonder voter turnout in the U.S. is so low. 

But there's still time!  Go to the polls now and vote Libertarian.  If you protest by not voting that's the same as voting for whoever wins. Use your vote to make any small statement you can.  This country deserves better public "servants" and as a citizen of the United States of Amercia it is your responsibility to do your part, however miniscule, to try to steer this country away from the idiots who are currently running it.