Two great shows that go great together. Sex and the City and the Daily Show. (via Eszter)
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml
Garance Franke-Ruta says Fred Thompson ain’t all that sexy. (via Dan)
Dooce gets used to the idea that she could never be a mom that travels happily with a tot.
A friend of mine wants to make a t-shirt that says "Don’t Tase Me, Bro!" Bad taste or big seller?
Eric Asimov’s list of the best wines for under $10. I do like the Ravenswood.
Apt. 11d 
I did like GF-R’s remark that “But the idea that Thompson is some kind of swoon-inducing example of mature masculinity strikes me as a classic example of how straight men are completely unable to assess each other’s visual appeal.
Straight women, on the other hand, are very acute judges of masculine appeal (even if we still date schlubs for other reasons), and there’s been a quiet rebellion brewing among the female political columnists against the idea that Thompson looks like anything other than how he actually looks, which is like a rather run-down older man.”
It’s a great line. On the other hand, there is actual data: many women showed, well, susceptibility to his charms during the time when he was not married. Those who are willing to be quoted seem still to think that he is swell (in notable contrast to the views of Rudy’s exes!). And he has now married a very good looking woman who had a successful career in DC and who, presumably, could have developed other options.
How to square the circle? Well, GF-R seems to have defined the question ‘sexy’ as ‘visual appeal’. Maybe he is charming and funny and polite? These things count.
GF-R also blows right past ‘tall.’ New York Times had one of its long thumbsuckers about sperm donors a few months ago, implications, new families, whether to tell the kids, women shopping for profiles with desired characteristics, SAT scores, graduate degrees, athleticism, no peanut allergies, yadda yadda yadda and: sperm banks have basically given up on stocking sperm from men who are shorter than five foot nine. Nobody wants to buy. One of my wife’s good friends is a lesbian who went to Fairfax Cryobank for sperm: she wanted a donor who was smart and healthy and TALL. She now has a couple of smart and health and TALL kids. So I think GF-R could pay this factor a little more attention…
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“Bad taste or big seller?”
Yes.
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I always get the Ravenswood when I need to buy wine at an unfamiliar store, like when visiting relatives.
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