“You try coming up with a coherent 30-second sound bite while your brain frantically processes the no-win situation you’re in. It’s harder than it looks.” Amanda Marcotte on Miss Utah.
The evolving research on female sexuality.
The Nigella Lawson pix freaked me out this weekend. There’s no way this is a playfull tiff.
Apt. 11d 
Actually, I think I could spontaneously produce thirty seconds of either gramatically and syntactically correct platitudes, or provocative but politically incorrect analysis, on almost any topic. That is the reward, meager enough, for spending one’s youth in Exeter, New Haven and Berkeley, rather than on the pageant circuit. I would guess that most of the other readers of this blog are in about the same situation as I.
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You could probably beat me in the evening gown portion, for sure. I’ve got the peasant torso.
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But you’re lower to the ground – much better for the potato picking of Eastern Europe.
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The only person I knew personally who was involved in pageants spent her formative years at Emory, St. Andrews, and Harvard before eventually clerking on the Supreme Court, though I can’t say for sure how typical she was. I certainly expect she could have done better than this, though I do suspect it’s easy to get flustered into saying something dumb.
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Gah. I read part of that Politico interview you retweeted, and now I’ve got stupid all over me.
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That weird defensive bit about sexism in the newsroom was very uncomfortable.
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