…to be reading this who doesn’t know what to do on Tuesday, here’s a handy checklist of Republican scandals and failures.

In keeping with her well-contrived “hot mess” public image, it’s a disjointed scrapbook of images and random thoughts. Salon’s reviewer can’t seem to get out of the cookie-cutter mode of feminist analysis, spending paragraph after paragraph discussing whether the book proves or disproves Love as being some sort of role model for All Females Everywhere. Silly reviewer: Of course she’s not. That’s part of her appeal, or at least it used to be.

…from the past two decades I’d literally fallen in love with, Adrienne Shelly, has suddenly died.

Some Georgia-Pacific workers thought their jobs were relatively safe after the company “went private,” in a deal that took it off of the stock market, and presumably disengaged it from the need to maintain a high stock price at the expense of everything else. Not so. The “privatized” G-P’s shedding thousands of jobs, and reaping “job development” tax breaks at the same time.

Yes, lowly OSU has outplayed the University of Spoiled Children, in the college-football upset of the year.

And a heads-up to baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, who won the World Series (or, as one might alternately say, the Detroit Tigers lost it).

…that three years ago, the International Association of Machinists tried to buy Boeing Commercial Airplane and move the unit’s HQ back to Seattle. I can’t think of a better set of hens who could’ve run their own henhouse. Of course, someone among them would’ve had the unenviable task of choosing which others among them would get laid off…

…when right wingnuts take a SciFi Channel show too seriously? What happens when the show changes its storyline, muddying its once-supposedly-clear political metaphors?

…has called it quits after 36 years, six locations, hundreds of productions, and a huge 2004-5 fundraising drive that was supposed to have saved it. Apparently director Alison Narver couldn’t get her Jeopardy!-loser brother to finagle a donation from Ken Jennings after all.

…officially begins tonight. Here’s some of the costumes I’m fully expecting to see along the party/club circuit these next five days:

• Curious George.
• Incurious George.
• Mark Foley and a Congressional page.
• A Brokeback Mountain couple with Bush and your least favorite Republican politician (yes, including Joe Lieberman and Tony Blair).
• A politicial “attack ad.”
• A Seattle Times vending box attacking a Seattle P-I vending box.
• A Super Bowl referee.
• Matt Hasselbeck on crutches.
• An Oklahoma Sonic.
• Howie Mandel and the Deal Or No Deal models, with metal briefcases.
• A celebrity baby.
• An adopted celebrity baby.
• Dr. House.
• Marie Antoinette.
• Samuel L. Jackson covered in rubber snakes.
• A dissected human body.
• A “cylon” from the new Batlestar Galactica.

…of mine believes Democrats should respond to right-wing race baiting ads.

…to talk about it, but its air-cuarter subsidiary services the CIA’s secret prison system.

…promoting two days of free Howard Stern. But it turns out that most of Sirius Satellite Radio’s free online, ending today. You’ve one more day to listen to all the Sirius music channels and most of the Sirius talk channels.

These include “Playboy Radio” (sex talk shows hosted by adult-video starlets who, counter to stereotype, are indeed capable of speaking in complete sentences), and “Sirius Left,” the liberal-talk channel Sirius assembled after Air America signed an exclusive contract with rival satellite-radio giant XM.

Sirius Left mainly comprises existing syndicated broadcast shows. These include the shows of Thom Hartmann and Stephanie Miller, both also heard locally on KPTK-AM 1090.)

It’s good that progressive talk has grown beyond one company into a growing, competitive genre, with legs to stand on and a clear future no matter what happens to Air America on the business side.

What satellite services can’t provide is local content. KPTK isn’t providing local content at this point either, but let’s hope they will soon.

Forbes now claims Kurt Cobain is now America’s most lucrative dead celebrity, having passed Elvis Presley with some $50 million in earnings. You may now make your own sick comment about what the poor lad would’ve done with the dough.

TIME MARCHES ON DEPT.: USA Today has discovered that a lot of those kids today are politically active and socially concerned. But writer Sharon Jayson felt obligated, alas, to insert the boilerplate disclaimer inserted into all mainstream media stories about youth activism lo these past three decades: “They may be less radical than baby boom activists in the 1960s and 1970s, whose demonstrations for civil rights, women’s equality and protecting the environment and protests against the Vietnam War became flashpoints for their times….”

…in its incessant search for trends to parse, has suddenly discovered “The Starbucks Aesthetic.” As you assuredly already know, it’s onr of comfort, reassurance, self-congratulation, and smug pseudo-hipness.

General Electric’s gonna slash 700 jobs at NBC and Universal Studios. More importantly, but buried in this linked story, is that NBC will drop all dramas and comedies from the 8-9 PM prime-time hour, presumably starting either next season or this next midseason, presumably filling the hour with more cheap “reality” shows.