Okay, fine. It was with Jeff Goldstein’s armadillo. But only once. We were both extremely drunk and the little guy had stolen all of Jeff’s Percoset. One thing led to another and…

Well, I’ll leave to your imaginations all of the gory details of liasons with fictional stuffed armored beasts on the way back from the taxidermist.

And Lisa, should you ever find yourself in the Denver area (And should you ever come by this site again… Hmm. My optimism begins to war with my pessimism, suddenly. And my pessimism has much more practice.), feel free to drop me an email. I’ll cook until half the neighborhood is pounding down the door. (Note to self: Get Greatnanna’s down-bayou style recipes from Dad. Use bribery and/or base groveling if required.) And you will see that I absolutely do not live in a correctional facility. (For one thing, most of my comments are in the wee hours of the morning, Robert!)

And lemming porn? Ugh, Robert. You surely have no taste. Everyone knows that transgendered meerkat porn is all the rage these da… Ummm, never mind.

The rest of us are watching him with a suspicious eye, secretly convinced that the lemming porn posts are only moments away.

In other words, he only wants you for access to the critters.

The sick SOB.

I’m not sure I’d characterize it as a pathology; more common sense for reproductive strategy, under survival conditions.

You’re assuming that when I said “in our culture” I meant “this is a pathology unique to our culture,” when in fact I meant “in our culture, which is the only one I know enough to speak about.”

That was a serious question, by the way. Feminists like to talk about the fact that younger women are generally considered prettier than older women as if it were some sort of pathology unique to our culture. But to the best of my knowledge this is universal, and I very strongly suspect that it has a biological basis. Are there any examples of cultures in which this isn’t the case?

As to the Hot 100 list, I must say that I barely made it through the first page so far, but my babe-o-meter only dinged 5 times, even including the blurbs attached to the photos. However, it went absolutely off the scale when I got down to Lisa Scarbrough.

The rest of them seem to be more about the progressive scene and awareness raising. Yet Lisa Scarbrough put her assets where her mouth is. And not for the standard causes, but for abused and neglected animals.

Now that’s REALLY hot! I wonder if she likes guys that can cook… I finally figured out the Insta-Chicken recipe, you know.

In what cultures is this not the case?

What I might raise now is the ageist argument — why must the REALLY hot 100 be about young women?

Everyone is also American (skimmed, might be wrong). I thought lefty feminists were internationalists?

I find the comparison on accessibility of the intellect of Amanda and Jeff G eerily accurate.

I didn’t discuss nothing but appearances; my first substantive comment concerns the monotonicity of the list’s politics. So nyah.

My motives in this post were 20% baiting, 80% noticing the irony of an anti-lookist agenda being completely obviated by the total lookism of the participants.

I wouldn’t argue that Amanda isn’t smart; it’s the “world-class” that amuses.

Looking through the list, most of the people there are conventionally attractive, but no more so than any group of mostly young, activist leaders. The list mainly has a bias towards the young, and in our culture “pretty” and “young” have a huge crossover in women; plus, due to subconscious discrimination, the conventionally attractive in all fields are more likely to become leaders; and, of course, it’s safe to assume that most of these folks, when asked to send in a photo of themselves, sent a photo in which they looked nice.

(By the way, I will be declining to discuss any particular examples, for obvious reasons).

[Edited to remove an unfair comment about conservatives, and to add:]

For the record, I think responding to a list like this by trying to discuss nothing but appearances is more than a little disturbing. Probably it was a mistake for me to respond to it all; I can’t help but suspect that you had, perhaps, a bit of mischievous baiting somewhere in the back of your mind when you wrote this post.

Only…I’ve reviewed their nominations to date (strictly in the interests of online journalism) and…well…these gals are all pretty hot.

Yes, quite curious, isn’t it?

Public relations, I suspect (her politics are… awful… but the hotness… critical brain melting… hooray feminism!)