We think we speak for everyone when we say….this year was a bitch!

The paths to greatness are varied and many. Some risk assassination and torture to uplift the downtrodden masses. Others hone their acting skills by faking ecstasy on casting couches and feigning interest in the vacuous blather of powerful people….

Ranging from photography to Art Cards to watercolor paintings, and even comic books, her images are startling, sublime and eerily beautiful renditions of what is around her and in the lovely dark corners of her mind…

Apparently one of the many glamorous and exciting jobs available in each branch of the military is bona fide advertising exec. Over the past few years, since this nightmare of a war began, there has been a significant drop in enlistment, not to mention the record high numbers of soldiers going AWOL. Due to these facts, there have been astonishingly creative advertisements found everywhere and no longer just the average side of a bus or billboard. There have been an increasing number of commercials, posters and magazine ads. There are even video games specifically created to convince you to be all you can be…

Excuse me if the cool new song “I Kissed a Girl” from random what’s her name #351 seems completely offensive. I was bored and quietly disappointed with the stupidity of the subject matter; “I kissed a girl and I liked it, hope my boyfriend don’t mind it” until I saw a group of full blown lesbians rocking out to it. What the hell is going on?

If you missed this past Saturday’s SNL you thankfully missed Michael Phelps trying to read cue cards and butchering most of his lines, but you also missed Tina Fey’s return doing a dead on Sarah Palin impression with Amy Poehler standing right by her side having quite a good time ragging on Hillary.

They’ve become one of our new favorites around the judgeMENTAL office & we just can’t get enough of Amy Ross’s quiet yet dramatic, boisterous voice that jumps and twirls around her plucky piano playing & Derek Ross’s nimble fingers on the guitar.

An open thank you letter to Tila Tequila for helping lift the gay marriage ban in California…[insert sarcasm right about here]

So this is a shout out to those who have worked, sweated and gone without cable to make their dreams come true. Those who have endured and succeeded, as well as those still enduring and trying to make the music and art which future generations may proudly remember this one for. Since it is so inappropriate for you to say these things publicly, we will. We salute you. Rock on.

Laugh with Ellen as she pokes fun at John McCain. Funny indeed.