Pop Diva Aguilera Decries Double Standard: EDINBURGH, Scotland (Reuters) – Christina Aguilera (news) is fuming. What’s so wrong with wearing skimpy outfits and making raunchy videos, she wants to know.

…nothing, Xtina. Nothing at all.

My sister is the bomb.

(EDITED TO ADD: photo by April Henry. Hello, Phyco!)

LANCASTER, Ohio — A man dressed as a woman was arrested after he walked into a Fairfield County courthouse and sat in a witness chair in a courtroom.

Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen said David William Kopp (pictured, left), of the Lancaster area, allegedly entered the courthouse while dressed as a woman, walked into a second-floor clerk’s office and then proceeded upstairs to Judge Steve Jackson’s courtroom. Kopp was found sitting on the bench in a witness chair, according to Deputy Jeff Marvin.

…Deputies took Kopp into custody because he entered the courthouse for no lawful reason, Phalen said. Kopp allegedly tries to enter courtrooms because he says judges are corrupt, NewsChannel 4’s Monique Ming Laven reported. Kopp was charged with resisting arrest, failure to comply with a police officer, disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing.

In the past, Phalen said Kopp created a disturbance in the courthouse to the point that Jackson issued a court order stating that Kopp was not to be on the fourth floor unless a court hearing or appointment was scheduled.

…Kopp allegedly resisted arrest. His wig fell off during the ordeal.

“He told us that we were all fired,” Marvin said. “As long as the sheriff says I have a job, I’m going.”

As will probably come as no surprise to my friends and family, I like to watch TV. My real problem is that when I watch TV, I watch TV. And so there are oftentimes things that stick out to me that most folks would let slide or otherwise wouldn’t take notice of. Val is the same, and treats television in the same way I do — which is how we found ourselves watching the nightly news on Sunday night on ABC, laughing ourselves silly.

Have you ever taken notice just what kind of commercials a given network is running at a given time? Take ABC’s Sunday night news, for instance: apparently, it’s all ads for laxatives, arthritis medications, Viagra, and sleep aids such as adjustable beds. Every commercial break was clearly intended for a — how shall we say — more mature audience. Now, normally we’re NBC people — Tom Brokaw in the house, y’all — and so we’re treated to ads for mutual funds, cars and fast food. I have no idea what CBS does with it’s time, as I tend to avoid that network like the plague. But are we alone in seeing a trend? Do more constipated people watch Peter Jennings than Dan Rather?

On a related note: Toys R Us is criticized for an ad showing Geoffrey the Giraffe inhaling helium from a balloon. I probably wouldn’t have really paid attention to this story, were it not for one very important detail that Val pointed out the other day and that no one else seems to be getting: it’s a hot air, not a helium, balloon. Whoops.

Also, back to the ABC thing: Terry Moran just wasn’t doing it for me, guys. Where’s Koppel when you need him?

If I could only pick three movies to watch each Halloween, these’d be the ones.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he does not know whether or not he has lost his mojo, as a leading news magazine suggested, largely because he doesn’t really know what mojo is.

…”Have you lost your mojo?” a reporter asked Rumsfeld during a Pentagon briefing.

Rumsfeld said he did not consult a dictionary — as he has for words like slog about which he has sparred with reporters — but he spoke with an aide who had.

“And they asked me that, and I said, ‘I don’t know what it means.’ And they said, ‘In 1926 or something, it had to do with jazz music.‘”

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Electronic-voting machine manufacturer Diebold sends cease-and-desist letters to persons linking to or mirroring copies of leaked internal memos regarding Diebold’s electronic voting security and certification.

Slashdot is making this out to be conspiracy over the right to vote, but I don’t see that particular sinister angle — the line in question appears to be a quote in a .sig file and not a statement from anyone representing the company. Nevertheless, Diebold is attempting to use the threat of a suit under the DMCA to stifle serious and legitimate questions about its product at a time when it is actively courting election commissions to endorse and adopt the same for their electoral process. This is obviously a problem, both in terms of the validity and security of electronic voting provided by a company with pretty well-defined political leanings and in terms of the misapplication of an ill-advised piece of federal legislation.

Found on Joe Szilagyi’s Worst Weblog Ever — thanks, Joe.