Go on over to CatHouse Chat to enjoy all the Christmas goodies - and may you and yours have a blessed, joyous Christmas, as well as a safe and happy New Year!

This year, our readers have already submitted the names of blogress divas new to the contest, including, we believe, only the second lesbian ever nominated, Cynthia Yockey, aka a Conservative Lesbian. Will she perhaps replace that other dyke divaTammy Bruce by capturing this year’s Endora and reigning a Conservative Blogress Diva Regent or will she join Sondra K and Pamela Geller as only the third woman to becomethe Grande Conservative Blogress Diva?

Other names drawn to my attention this year include Cassandra of Villainous Company,Nic Deb, Megan McArdle, Phyllis Chesler and Karin Quade (of anti-anti-Americanism.com).

Also contention are reigning divas Pamela Geller, Tammy Bruce and neoneocon as well as Amy Alkon, The Anchoress, Ann Althouse, Little Miss Attila, Dymphna of Gates of Vienna, immediate past Grande Conservative Blogress Diva Sondra K of Knowledge is Power, Mary Katharine Ham of The Weekly Standard, Rachel Lucas, Michelle Malkin,Camille Paglia, Virginia Postrel of The Dynamist, Jennifer Rubin of Commentary’s Contentions, Sister Toldjah, Debbie Schlussel, and Fausta Wertz.

Please submit your nominations (or seconds) in the comments section below or via e-mail. Bruce and I will review the submissions and choose this year’s roster, posting a poll as soon as this coming Friday with balloting continuing for at least a week.

Of that formidable group, Sondra K of Knowledge is Power , Cassandra of Villainous Company, Nic(e) Deb, The Anchoress, Little Miss Attila, Mary Katharine Ham of The Weekly Standard, and Fausta Wertz are all Cotillion members, some more active in the group than others. It is of course a testament to our fierce blogging skills that so many of us got nominated.

Gay Patriot is taking nominations until Wed, Dec. 16. Which of course means it's not too late for a few more Cotillion members to be included as more than a few eminently qualified blogresses have somehow been passed over. We can rectify that intolerable situation via e-mail.

Which one of us will add the crown to her tiara?

May the best diva win!

It's the first weekend of December and boxes of decorations, tangled lights and extension cords are being pulled out among the scattered shrieks as spiders and earwigs scurry away.

And the debate will begin anew each season as neighbors risk limb and dignity climbing ladders or wrapping bushes and trees with lights ...

White or Color?