"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
27 March 2004Hottie spirit before a fallFraters Libertas are asking "Who's hotter?" One person mentioned in their poll is author/pundit Peggy Noonan, and while Saint Paul is justly fond of her, he can't bring himself to consider her hot:
[T]here's nothing terribly wrong with her face. In fact there's a lot right about her beautiful, fashionably cut blond hair, her bottomless pale blue eyes which reveal a piercing intellect and just a hint of a tragedy. Her forehead, ears, cheekbones — fine, fine, fine. Draw a horizontal line across her face, centered about mid nose and concentrate on the top half only and she's a knockout.
It's the lower half of the picture where the heretofore divine genetic code got a little scrambled. To be specific, it's her big, flaring nostrils and long, thin lips. Upon intensive study, I believe they can only be described in one way: porcine. I need hardly point out that Saint Paul is not at all hinting that anyone is going to lop off Peggy Noonan's ear in the hopes of making a purse from it, but True Perfection is not bestowed upon mere mortals, and the distribution of fragments thereof seems random at best. An appearance by sitcom creator Diane English in the new Entertainment Weekly struck me similarly; while Hanes thought enough of her to feature her in a hosiery ad some years ago, the EW head shot reveals the facial expression of a basset hound in pain. Then again, as a person whose appearance is untidy at best, I am hardly in a position even to pretend to be judgmental. (Update, 10:25 pm: Accepted twenty lashes and a copy of the Northern Alliance pamphlet "How To Tell Fraters Apart, Dammit".) |