It's about freaking time!

As a Cubs fan, all I can say is: Wait till next year!!

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how can salon name ira glass as sexiest man when salon was the first to reveal to us what a dick he is, in Lynda Barry's "My Worst Boyfriend"? (clearly about mr. glass.)

also everyone knows owen wilson is not tortured, just a junkie. junkiies are not sexy!

john hamm IS sexy though.

Hrithik Roshan. Watch him in Dhoom 2 and sigh for him forever after. (The movie is tacky but he's great.)

but my favorite was Jacques Pepin. The man is an artist. An artist of economy. In a good way.

Now, I have to ask: but what about Rupert Everett and Alan Rickman? Or am I showing my age?

He gets better every year.

If you were living in Chicago when the pledge-begging became the Ira Glass show, you wouldn't find him particularly sexy either.

Otherwise there would've been no way to leave Erwin Schrott off the list. The man is amazing, especially in Don Giovanni. Terfel is often funny and deliberately almost buffoonish in the role; Schrott is power, overwhelming sexuality, and evil.

I'd like to nominate Cary Tennis as the sexiest Salon columnist alive.

I'm not gay, but I appreciate the Tony Leung and Jeffrey Wright love.

I'm in excited agreement with most of these choices, but I was so hoping for at least one Coen brother.

1. Don't mind the story, if there was balance and a similar story about women we find sexiest.

2. However, just another indication that Salon is getting less serious and having less serious articles by the week.

3. Was an original Premium member but no longer and I visit often and am see no reason to begin. The editorial choices are sometimes just unbelievable. Fun is good, if it balances out the serious material; the balance seems more 'Life' channel with every passing week. Not bad if that is the audience you are trying to attract.

Steve Law

2 guys are not on the list

Steven Colbert

Anthony Bourdain

Then again, I'm a guy.

What in the hell?!?!

For a mag that's supposed to be so hip, this was too much information of the wrong kind. Eeeeeeyeech!

And Joan, you broke my heart, you really did!

Agghh! I may never look at any of you the same way again. I may go off on a spiritual quest to deepest Africa, like Conrad's Kurtz, just to wash this article out of my head.

Anderson Cooper? Really?!?

I say yea to Flight of the Conchords!

Simcha Jacobovici, the Naked Archaeologist. His shows are thoughtful and his personality is fun. His body doesn't look too bad either.

I'm sorry, I have to burst the Judd Apatow love bubble that's been going on for awhile now (since 40 year old virgin, I think). Now, don't get me wrong, I think that film, and knocked up, and superbad, are all fantastic. However, this statement:

"Apatow even goes one better -- he lets their female counterparts be just as funny and messed up and terrified as they are."

bears some disagreement. Because it's just not totally true. Yes, he lets his female characters be messed up and terrified. But they still must be hot. Catherine Keener? Katharine Heigl? Hot popular teenage girls in superbad? They're all HOT.

So, to talk of Judd Apatow as some kind of dork savior, it's only in the strictest sense of "male" dork savior. Call me when he write a film about a dorky guy who is psyched to get the average looking but awesome girl. Or better yet, when someone lets a dorky looking girl star and be funny.

Steve Law had it right when he said Salon is losing its gravitas. I love a good time as much as the next girl, but seriously, you guys really need to work a little harder. The stories you're coming up with just don't seem like research efforts at all anymore.

And so even when it's fine to have fun, like the sexiest living man thing... your choices reveal your shallowness. Gay athletes, and cartoon characters?

There used to be at least mention made of the thinking woman's sex symbol, but now even that is gone. Quiet thoughtful serious actors, risk-taking politicians, brilliant writers..... none of it's there anymore.

Please Salon, buy some NoDoz and put some effort, some thought into it.....

why is alan greenspan not on the list? after years of seeing him in five second snipets on the 6 o'clock news i finally see an interview (thanks jon stewart) and nearly die. he is so incredibly smart i want to make love to his giant brain.

Sexiest Man?

Get a friggin camera why don't you?

Listen, I tire often of the meandering ramblings of this site. But this oversight...this extreme negligence in assessing facts...takes the cake!

To say the least, the description of what it is that makes me incredibly the sexiest man alive would have catapulted this site to the front of a long line of sites hoping to be known as niche. Political activist, humorist, possessor of an intellect that takes social and cultural criticism to a high art....and less we forget, very damn good looking too!

Very damn good looking!

How good looking you ask?

Well, let's just say Mona Lisa wants me. Yea, that's right. Mona Lisa, Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Beyonce and Jezebel herself all know who's got the look!

So why doesn't Salon?

Since I know you don't know, let me just say this.

Maybe next year you'll get it right!

Just read his speeches and look at his voting record and try to tell me he's not a dreamboat.

i dunno. i just find this premise boring.

Drat. Another year passes and I'm still not on the list.

And now I am sad.

And now, being sad, I am also sexy! Could next year be the one?

Hope renewed, I am no longer sad... And am no longer sexy. Drat!

This is tougher than I thought.