I’ve been hungover all day. Not hungover on booze but on politics. Why can’t we have one election decided that night? I’m so sick of all this recount stuff. The T is a “Conservative” (no that doesn’t mean I’m all lovely on Bush or this stupid war) but I think really I’m just enamored by the numbers on my computer come election night. I kept hitting the refresh button to check who was winning…not just on the big elections but ALL the elections.

Here are things that I think are cool about our midterm election:

1) Arizona did not pass a silly ban that would reject gay people (and straight people as well) to live as common law partners. This means that finally gay couples can have some rights in AZ. This is awesome. I’m proud that AZ didn’t go the way of other states not realizing that everyone in a loving relationship deserves basic “common law” rights.

2) South Dakota rejected a sweeping abortion ban that would have made abortion illegal even in cases of rape and incest. I’m from ND so this is shocking to me, but I’m so glad something this sweeping did not pass.

3) Pennsylvania voted to allocate $20 million dollars for veterans of the Persian Gulf war.

4) Arizona defeated a measure that would make voting into a million dollar lottery. This in my mind is a smart idea. Come on people. Vote to get your voice heard. Buy your own lottery ticket.

So here is the T’s take on politics today. Who do you think we will see in 2008? I’m not a Hillary fan, so I’m not to enthralled at the idea of her being our president. I hope we have an Obama/McCain 2008 election…that would make me excited. So, until something earth shattering happens in the world of politics I am back rooting for Britney and making fun of Paris.

Peace.

Turns out the Donald Rumsfeld resignation story first broke at…

…the Comedy Central blog.

Loves. It.

[via Gawker]

…and the blame is falling squarely on Donald Rumsfeld, who’s stepping down as Defense Secretary. That President dude wants some former CIA bigshot, Robert Gates, to take his spot. Stay tuned.

Also important: Australian home-wrecker Abbie Cornish was a no-show at the premiere of her new movie, Candy. She’s probably trying to stay out of the spotlight after being blamed for the Reese/Ryan split. Ryan’s denied a lot of things this week, but he hasn’t denied his relationship with Cornish, which friends say he made very little effort to hide.

Have you ever seen The Second Civil War? You haven’t? It’s a 1997 comedy about an immigration issue that spirals into a second U.S. Civil War. It’s funny — you should watch it. (You should get high first.) The point is, there’s a very important scene in this movie: two news anchors are reporting live on camera on the in-progress Civil War. The man says “And, in other news,” and then the woman turns to him and screams “You wanker! There is no other news!” It’s been a running joke among my friends and I since, well, 1997. But it’s ever so fitting, now, as the celeb gossip world begins to wade through the emotional hangover that inevitably follows any Britney Spears Divorce Day. What else could possibly be of any import? I hear murmurings of some political elections that happened yesterday, and it’s possible they even took place in the U.S., but who cares? Britney Spears filed for divorce.

Alas, I have a job to do, and all the other celebs are all alive and well and going about their non-Britney-Spears-divorce business, so here goes:

Anna Nicole sold the video of her C-section. Check out the (very graphic) trailer. [Defamer]

Kanye West didn’t mean to be such a jackass at the MTV Europe VMAs. He was just drunk. So it’s totally okay. [HGW]

Apparently Rosario Dawson and Jason Lewis have been dating for two years. Don’t waste too many brain cells on that, because they split up. [Pop on the Pop]

R&B star Mya suffers a panic attack and is taken to the hospital after eating a marijuana cookie. [CelebSlam]

Oh, right, that election. [CNN]

Since, let’s be honest, most of you aren’t going to hear about it if we don’t write about it on gossip blogs (hey, I’m one of you), Saddam Hussein (remember him?), was sentenced to death by hanging this weekend.

In other news shaping your world, The Bachelor found $50K of Salma Hayek’s jewelry in a taxi cab.

From today’s edition of The Sun.

[via BestWeekEver]

[you know, I accidentally mistyped that as BestWeedEver, and it occurred to me that, if you were smart, you'd buy that domain name]