Honestly, I'm not just creating argument threads because I got nothin' myself (well, there's some of that, I guess), but I kinda think this is funny.

Okay, so everyone can sorta name their favorite make-out songs. For whatever reason, they work for you. A lot of them probably because they were actually playing one of the first times you fooled around.

But what are the worst make-out songs of all time? Whether because the beat is all wrong, the song is just plain goofy and silly, or because the lyrics are just inappropriate or annoying.

I don't know the worst make-out song, but right now, I'm thinking that it would be sorta a drag to try to make out to Billy Joel's Allentown. You know, it's hard to feel sexy when you're being informed "They're shutting all the factories down."

Tangential Update: I posted this once before, expecting a lot of links, but no one seemed to care.

Patti mentions Puddle of Mudd's She Hates Me as a bad make-out song, although I always sorta like those angry ones.

Anyway, one of the weirdest things I found trolling on the internet (of a non-pornographic nature, I mean) is this site, in which people compulsively compile "X-Men Music Videos" to pop/rock/punk songs, featuring clips from the two movies.

You can view She Hates Me, acted out by Jean, Rogue, and Wolverine there.

I don't know. Am I the only person who finds this bizarre, funny, and kind of endearing simultaneously?

If it were just one guy making these videos, I don't think I'd care. But there are a whole group of people who really feel the need to put Cyclops into Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It.

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An electoral college map is here to help keep you in your prognostication.

Larry Sabato's own map and current prediction.

Make your predictions:

House GOP Gains or Losses. Currently 227-207 with 1 independent. Sabato predicts the outcome will be something like 232-235 R to 200-203 D. Note how many seats you think the GOP will pick-up or lose (+5, -3, etc.)

Senate GOP Gains or Losses. Currently 51-48+a Vermont douchebag. Recent predictions seem to call for about 3 net GOP gains in the Senate. Again, call the pick-up or loss (+2, -3).

Presidential Election: Popular vote share. Call the percent of the popular vote that Bush will receive to the nearest half-percent.

Presidential Election: Electoral Share. Call the number of electors you think Bush will win.

Presidential Election: Time of Declaration. Call the time you think that the first of the major broadcast and cable news networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC (sorta) and Fox) declare an overall winner in the contest. Be aware-- they're not going to do so very quickly this time around.

Presidential Election: Swing States! Call who will win the following states: OH, FL, MI, MN, IA, WI, PA, CO, NJ, HI, NM, NH.

Presidential Election: Tiebreaking Uncategorizable Prediction! Make your bold call of an interesting happening that will occur on Election Night. Will James Carville put another trash can on his head? Will Peter Jennings announce that "Tonight the nation had a temper-tantrum"? Will Dan Rather break down and demand, "What the fuck are you people-- morons?" Humorous and serious predictions welcome.

Overall winner decided by me.

Prize? You get to lead the line when we do a mass "Victory Lap" through the comments of the blogosphere. Plus the usual dumb non-prizes.

Clarification: Cedarford reminds me that Louisiana probably isn't electing a Senator on Nov. 2; it's probably just forwarding two men to a runoff to take place in December. This sort of screws everything up, because, of course, I want to judge a winner shortly after the election, if not that night.

So, because the Republican in LA is favored to win, I'm going to assume that Vitter will win so long as he makes it at least to the run-off (which he will). This is a sorta goofy workaround, since the person who predicts "right" by my rule may turn out to be wrong, but I don't know how else to handle it, given that people have already made predictions, and I don't want everyone to modify their predictions based on this wrinkle.

So I guess we'll just take Vitter as an in-the-bag pick-up for the Republicans, at least as far as these predictions, even though he's really not.

Another clarification: When picking the time of declaration, include a time zone, or else I'll just assume you mean Eastern time. Eastern Standard or Eastern Daylight, whatever the hell we'll be in on Nov. 2. I can never keep that straight.

Yes, very presumptuous of me and all. Very East-Coast-Centric. But we need a default. We can't have this prediction contest descending into a two-week disputed affair with the threat of outright political violence.

Help a Blogger Out: Try to respond to the questions specifically posed, or else it's going to be difficult for me to include you as a candidate for the actual winner. Like, don't just tell me which states Kerry will win. Tell me which of the states I asked about he'll win.

And yeah-- I should have asked about Oregon. It slipped my mind.

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The Unpopulist has a poll I had never heard of. Seems that, in Iraq, Bush garners the most support from the Kurdish north, whereas Senator Kerry draws the most support in the centers of the insurgency, such as Sadr City.

More foreign support for Kerry. Yayyy.

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Fuck all these lunatic leftist bastards. This sort of talk is what leads to political violence.

Update: Fresh from Bill Burkett's magic typewriter, Tim Blair has the evidence of the Rove-bin Ladin tactical alliance.

You know, it's sorta funny, isn't it, that Saddam Hussein and OBL could never work together because they disagreed on a few minor points over the proper way to kill Christians, Jews, and problematic Muslims, and yet Rove and bin Ladin seem to get on so swimmingly.

Thanks to the Unpopulist.

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Gee, I guess it's Halloween already. Korla Pundit finds separated-at-birth liberals and monsters.

Karla really has a lot of time on his hands. And apparently a frightening familiarity with Fangoria.

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As if there were any doubt anyway.

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This seemed so absurd to me I didn't even feel much like blogging it, but if a poll shows Bush up by a point in Hawaii, I guess it has to be noted for the record. (Don't bother with the link for specific numbers; they're not provided.)

From Son of Nixon, who also reports on a true Patriot who supports Bush.

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A repeat, but as they say on NBC, if you haven't seen it yet, it's new to you.

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Uh-oh. Maybe they have a last ace up their sleeves after all.

Update: Atomic Amish tells me there's some question about whether this rally is really going to happen. Apparently threads announcing it have been pulled.

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A six point lead, 50-44. But that's not the fun part. The fun part is watching hyperliberal Newsweek attempt to claim that "anything less than a nine point lead" is a "statistical tie," and that a six point lead really means nothing with a four point MoE, etc.

Let them coccoon.

The coccoon gets ripped open on Tuesday.

Update: Cranky Neocon previews Newsweeks upcoming Conventional Wisdom Watch, a feature that jumped the shark back in, oh, 1987 or so.

I Still Know What You Did Last Update: Polls and analysis from Secure Liberty.\

Yet Another Teenage Update: Vegas & the electronic markets break for Bush, too.

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