BB8, continued.

The few regular readers to this blog, or any readers who can see the right-hand nav which lists how many posts are by subject will notice that “Politics” is the leading category…and yet, with rare exception, I haven’t posted much about that lately. There is no specific reason except that I’m suffering from a bit of malaise about how messed up our leaders are, how much work we’ll need to do to bring the country back to where it was when Bill Clinton left office, and … sigh.

That’s it, though. Nothing specific, just a general reluctance to do much of anything.

Besides point out that Mitt Romney is a big, wet, used douchebag.

In other news, Big Brother 8 is in full stride. This weekend’s show featured new Head of Household Dick (aka, “Evil Dick” or “E.D.”) deciding who he’d put up on the block. It seemed like it was a no-brainer, as he’s had verbal altercations with Jen and Kail, and to choose anyone else would probably create more questions than it would solve. But of course, this being reality drama, they milked it…suggesting that he might nominate Nick, who is being a jerk in his own special way, or Mike for …some reason that never made sense.

But in the end, his nominations were no-brainers, though surprisingly Dick said he would do what he could to get Kail out of the house, and that by nominating Jen back, he was “clean” with her. It probably makes strategic sense, because Kail has already been strategizing and making alliances, but Jen is easily the most loathsome person in the house.

On the other hand, despite the fact that she’s that person, it’s hard to not notice that…well, she’s white hot. I hate that she is, and that in moments she’s leaning over a countertop to look at her reflection in the back of a spoon, that I can’t help but notice her great butt. (Sorry, it’s true.)

(That moment occurred while Amber was consoling Jameka for eating slop, and Amber was barely holding back her tears, while Jen later acknowledged to the camera that, “I’m not so good at that stuff…the feeling bad for people stuff, that is.” (Or something like that.)) I swear, if you combined Amber and Jen, you would get one relatively normal level of empathy and emotional state.

So yeah, Jen is hot and it’s too bad because otherwise it would be even easier to hate her. As it is, she’s sort of growing on me because she’s so out of tune with her public self, and either delusional or incredibly self-possessed. (After being nominated, she said she didn’t feel any different because she was still in the house. Um, yeah…that’s how the game works. And she always seems SHOCKED that Julie Chen would talk to her, even though she’s just talked to five other houseguests. OK, I hate her again.)

And one more thing – I’ve finally figured out the America’s Player thing. Eric, who gets instructions from the viewers on who he should nominate or vote for, gets $10,000 for each task he completes. (Not sure if this includes his votes, though it certainly should.) Given that, I get why he’s on board with this, even though it’s a pretty paltry payout if he starts getting asked to do things that could make other houseguests dislike him (like, for instance, sleepwalking into their bed.)

Back to Nick, who apparently is putting a full court press on Danielle, the virtually anorexic Anna Nicole Smith look-alike, and also the daughter of Evil Dick. It’s not clear if they’ve actually fooled around (my wife, who has done some research, suggests there is some footage from the 24-hour cameras that suggest as much), but she’s professed to be in love with her boyfriend back home…and yet Nick keeps coming on to her. If he’s a standup guy, which he may or may not be, he would lay off. Because she’s in tears about this stuff as she obviously DOES have feelings for Nick. That’s not shocking – they’re virtually spending 24 hours a day with each other, and are attracted to each other…but please. Walk around the house and associate with others. Nick is either a date rape waiting to happen, or he’ll give her some space. Either way, he’s not treating her very well and probably is doing this only so that he can get in her pants. So…I’m putting even money on the fact that Nick is not very much a good guy.

In any case, this show rocks, and is only getting better.