Have you all recovered from the sugar and alcohol congealing in your veins since Halloween? (Science!) ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel had a particularly fun Halloween this year, as he managed to send dozens of children into a crying frenzy, their hearts broken and minds reeling over the discovery that their parents had taken and eaten all of their sugary Halloween loot.

For some reason, people are not flocking to Halloween stores this year to go as Barack Obama or Michele Bachmann. How could that be?

In what was perhaps one of the least political New Rules he’s ever done, Bill Maher took a more artistic look at the value of tripping the lights fantastic on acid. He argued that many of the greatest innovators and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries were admitted drug users, including the recently passed Steve Jobs, who admitted to his biographer that taking acid was one of the best decisions of his life.

Ohio University’s Students Teaching About Racism in Society spoke with CNN’s Randi Kaye about their viral campaign against racist Halloween costumes called “We’re a Culture, Not a Costume”. “We feel this is very important because a lot of students are unaware that dressing up or posing as a different culture is very offensive,” said STARS secretary Chrissa Bush. “We want to bring awareness to not only Athens, but to all over the world where people can stop making this mistake and start respecting all ethnicities,”

CNN’s Rob Marciano recently became very involved in a recent segment while visiting a haunted house attraction.

Fulfilling the lifelong and afterlifelong dreams of many, Marciano dressed in some (pretty impressive) zombie makeup in order to scare the living daylight out of hapless tourists.

On Monday’s Fox and Friends , Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade reported on the “all out assault on Halloween.” “Schools across the country are doing everything from banning costumes to even removing the holiday because it may offend immigrants,” Kilmeade exclaimed. Carlson lamented the fact that schools were “cracking down” on Halloween. “I’m sad, I have two little kids and I’m wondering if they’re not going to ever see the American traditions that all of us had.”

Sex scandal beseiged former Congressman Anthony Weiner is now available in costume form. New York City’s Halloween superstore Ricky’s is selling a Weinergate-themed custome replete with rubber mask and boxer shorts with exposed ‘balls’ drooping out of them.

Hot on the heels of her “I am not a witch” campaign ad, and just in time for Halloween, Herobuilders.com is offering Christine O’Donnell witch dolls for the collectible price of $39.95. The site also offers an “Executive” version of the doll, in a smart business suit, for $29.95. If you live in a cave, the doll is a spoof of O’Donnell’s now-infamous claim to have “dabbled in witchcraft” as a teenager.

The dolls just went on sale today, so when we contacted Herobuilders owner Emil Vicale, he was shocked to learn that his creation had already been featured in The New York Daily News. While he didn’t have any sales figures yet, he did give us some indications of the doll’s possible success.

Here at Mediaite we have had a disproportionate number of horror-filled posts, about monsters and vampires and zombies and Glenn Beck. And no, this isn’t just an excuse to post a picture of Megan Fox, how dare you imply such a thing!

I read The Shining before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12. It’s an incredible book, one which taught me to fear hotel room bathtubs, what a topiary was, why you can’t forget about the boiler, and the phrase “officious little prick” (I’ve met plenty of them since then.) I hate horror [...]

An article on CBN.com that alleges, among other things, that “most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches” has been removed by the site after becoming an object of mockery by The Huffington Post.