Karl Rove is somebody who has been derisive and dismissive of the blogosphere on occasion. That notwithstanding, I am 99.9999999999% certain that he has at least one blog written under a pseudonym. Suspecting Karl Rove of stuff is not a very productive activity. A lot of people suspect that he is a closeted homosexual.

I think the only way to figure out which blogger is Karl is by process of elimination. I am pretty sure PerezHilton.com isn’t written by Karl Rove. He’s not the fake Steve Jobs either. If you are a blogger and you are NOT Karl Rove, please leave a comment.

Oh, while you’re at it, please comment on my theory that the political genius has chosen to do a stint as a regular citizen at the end of this cycle because he has crunched the numbers and he KNOWS that McCain is going to lose. If he can find the magic bullet to take Obama down and he hands it to the official McCain team, maybe he can be the Golden Boy of Evil politics again. If not, he doesn’t get any loss cooties on him.

I am going to start mentioning events that I plan to avoid on my blog. This will help any reader who is trying to avoid meeting me IRL at all costs.

On June 13th and !4th, I will not be at the Washboard Music Festival. It is taking place in Ohio and I am worried that Neil Young might show up and do an impromptu performance of the political song of the same name (the 385th Greatest Song of All Time). He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and I suspect that he plays the washboard, even though it’s not a real instrument.

I try to continue to like Neil Young and I really don’t have anything against washboards either. I just worry that things might get out of hand.

I like Dick Cheney. I mean, he is not pretentious. He is no more or less evil than he lets on. The crazy speculation about a naked lady reflected in his shades in an official photograph is amusing. It is the closest that he has ever been to seeming sexy. Maybe his sexiness is the real reason for his steadfast refusal to run for President. He knows that his nation is not yet ready for a sexy President.

By the way, it is just the reflection of the VP’s hand gripping his pole.

I don’t know if this movie is going to stay up on Google. I haven’t watched it yet, but I did watch an excerpt of it on YouTube a few months ago. Basically it is some small time movers and shakers that got schmoozed and later spurned by the Clintons. One of them is Spiderman creator Stan Lee. Since these are Hollywood types, they have one recourse that the Clintons may have failed to consider when they wrote them off. They made a movie.

I always thought Stan Lee was a little weird because he sometimes drew really bodacious tatas on Aunt May. Maybe I was a little weird for noticing. Maybe I am more than a little weird for remembering it for a couple of decades and then blogging about it. Anyway, the Clintons aren’t very nice.

edit: I have watched 26 minutes of the 90 minute movie. It is pretty unrelenting and illuminating. It paints a much broader picture than I had anticipated. One of the tarriest brushes is wielded by none other than Anne (shudder) Coulter, who benefits from a skillful editor in this movie. Someone who honestly believes that the enemy of their enemy is their friend cherry picked a number of reasonable and believable sounding quotes from the awful harpy. I had to stop watching after 26 minutes, if I can bring myself to watch more, I will update again.

2nd edit: I watched another few seconds of the movie, but I was asked to pause it. I went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory about a key Clinton basher known as Peter Paul. This man is a convicted criminal and has repeatedly committed fraud in various ways, shapes and forms. If he is the driving force behind this movie, I don’t think it deserves that much attention. Maybe the Clintons are guilty of carrying out character assassination on their enemies, but Paul’s character has been dead man walking since the 70s.

First off, I want to say that I like Barrack Obama and he would be my choice if I had any choice in the matter. I have expressed that sentiment on a few occasions and sometimes I hear or read people saying that he is full of hot air or all style and no substance. There are dozens of ways for people to say the same thing. I was reminded of the situation today when I ended up listening to The Cult of Personality on YouTube. I like to think of the criticism as a fall back position by stubbornly partisan people who would prefer to be able to pick apart what he says and instead have to be content with spouting off the mantra that he is all talk.

I am flabbergasted by the arguments that some people make about how he would not be able to DO various things. I have gotten to the point where I think that they imagine an elected President should go around increasing the GDP, improving health care and education and winning wars with his or her bare hands. In actuality, Presidents are supposed to make speeches and make policy decisions. This might be beside the point, but Obama has the biggest hands of all the candidates.

After watching the following video, I decided to check out the address of the Orlando scientology office on Google Maps.

When I saw that there was Street Level available for the location, I had to click on it. While I was checking out the area, something wonky happened. I blame scientology. Here is a screen cap…

I have never had this happen to me before. Ok, so I have never used Firefox with Street Level before, but that is BESIDE THE POINT!!!

The video gets a little old after awhile, I would suggest playing this one at the same time to make it less boring.

The Worst Time to Suffer From Paranoia is when people are out to get you. I spent an hour pouring over the long Vanity Fair article about the tragic last days of an artistic power couple who had fled Hollywood for New York after a weird series of events and then committed suicide in separate events. The main theme running through the story is that two people who were very much in love had both descended into mental illness. One of the main targets of Theresa Duncan’s paranoia was the church of scientology. It is unclear as to whether there was any actual threat. Any correspondence coming from anyone involved with scientology could be put in the context of justifiable denials and pushback. Given the fact that there are powerful people in Hollywood who belong to this cult, I believe that there probably was some level of malicious damage to the professional and social lives of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Theresa Duncan’s story about befriending Beck and offering to help him escape the cult is dubious because of Beck’s denials, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Did you know that much of the work involved in creating ManHunt2, the first mainstream gay video game, was carried out in Vienna?

The Rockstar Vienna studio was closed down and its employees did not get mentioned in the credits for this popular games. There is a rumor that the Vienna dudes put some unauthorized Easter Eggs in the game. I don’t want to spoil the surprise for any of you avid gamers, but I am going to embed a few videos that will clue you in on what passes for creativity in Vienna.

Once you find the Easter Eggs on the game, you will have the added functionality of hugging and Vienna Sausage eating.

I have been hearing a lot about the destruction of records in Washington lately. Some people are even suspicious of the recent fire in the White House compound. The secrecy, and the reasons for the secrecy are troubling, but what bothers me more is the waste and the pollution involved in these actions. The Bush administration has been talking the talk with reference to environmental issues in recent months, but they need a lesson in the three Rs. Reducing, reusing and recycling all that incriminating paper and videotape would be much better for the environment than burning it. I created this illustration to suggest a great photo opp; decorating the White House Christmas tree using shredded paper and unwound videotapes.

The book in this man’s hand is a book that was written by a man who is not given much credit by the MSM in the USA. Greg Palast wrote Armed Madhouse. I watched a 27 minute video of Greg Palast speaking about voter fraud. I agree with him that the solution to that problem is the massive mobilization of voters. I hope the voters of the USA end up with Presidential candidates that inspire a high voter turnout.