... Were out of line, imho.

Would we be saying the same thing about an older woman who, say, decided to go to the gym and died of a heart attack while on the treadmill?

She was an adult. She was obviously smart enough to know what she wanted. And I bet she knew the risks involved.

It isn't that cosmetic procedures are peachy and problem-free. It's that the discourse around them has gotten annoyingly self-righteous.

If I were Kanye West, I would not be returning the love right about now.

What the hell! You don't have Vince Young, Colt McCoy, or Tony Romo on your friggin' list. These guys are a man's man and know how to treat their Momma and other ladies. Good day, Mam.

Shouldn't the quote from Martin Luther King in the clean energy activit profile actually be from Martin Luther King Jr.?

Sorry, I couldn't resist. And "sexiest man" has no inherent celebrity qualification attached.

He has Olbermann's political sensibilities and sense of humor without the overweening ego. (Sorry, I love Keith, but if there were a drinking game where you had to take a shot every time he made a self-congratulatory comment, we'd all have cirrhosis by now.)

He's absolutely adorable, and incredibly sexy, and completely clueless about it.

He is totally goofy about our dog, and plays with him on the floor like a six-year-old.

He is conscientious and thoughtful without a whiff of pomp or piety.

He is insanely smart but never show-offy.

My friends call him "the gold standard," and the women in his office love him.

The guys do, too.

Okay, and so do kids and dogs.

He doesn't take any crap, but doesn't make many enemies, either.

He buys me a little gift a day for the month of my birthday. (The first year he did this, when we'd just started going out, he bought me a lot of soaps, which made me wonder if he was trying to tell me something. But it was just the guy-think "women like soaps" thing.)

He still roots for the Detroit Lions, the team he grew up with, who have pretty much never won anything. Ditto the Tigers, who have won once. And he still loves screw-ups like Denny McClain.

He defends me to his mother. (He was her late-in-life "miracle baby," and she still thinks he's a little too young to be married, at 47.)

The first thing he bought for our house was a Sears workbench, like his dad had.

After 14 years, I still grab him every chance I get.

And mostly for good (and sometimes for ill!), he still really drives me mad.

I second "cirty Jobs" Mike Rowe love. Sexy, witty, dirty (really dirty) with a twinkle in his eye.

Whooops - make that GAEL Garcia Bernal! Sorry!

Yay, Peter Sarsgaard and Inarritu make the list! When I first saw Sarsgaard, that slightly disheveled look and intelligent eyes did it for me. As for Inarritu - I swear, he's even more sexy than any of his actors! Speaking of whom, why no Gabriel Garcia Bernal on the list ?

For opera buffs only, perhaps, and a few years late, but to pick up on the Cate Blanchett-as-Bob-Dylan line of thinking - I'd like to proffer the charismatic androgynous yet totally masculine attraction exuded by the fantastic British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in the title role in "Giulio Cesare" in the Glyndebourne production in 2005 (check out the DVD, people!) !

yes on Tony Leung!! he is so hot! yum.

i really don't think Owen Wilson is at all sexy. have never ever seen it. (also, to the person who added Ben Affleck...have never ever seen that either.)

serious omissions-

* Gael Garcia Bernal (but maybe you picked him last year?)

* Dominic West (the Wire)

* Idris Elba (the Wire...did you pick him last year or something? he is seriously the sexiest man living...how could you not pick him???)

* Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under)

not as grave but still omissions nonetheless-

- Chow Yun Fat

- Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)

and if you're going into the land of music-

- Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)

How did I miss that perfect review of Pride and Prejudice? Come to think of it, did Judy Dench play the night scene with a flashlight under her chin?

How could you have forgot about Bruce Springsteen! Sexy, lefty, ballsy, what's not to love?

Rufus Wainwright is a major dreamboat for men and women alike. Sure, he's not everyone's cup of tea...just persons' with good taste. Do a web search the performance of "San Francisco" at his recent Hollywood Bowl concert, or listen to "Peach Trees" from Want Two, to see what I'm talkin' about. Also, he is a gay man who posed in long undies for the video for "Rules and Regulations." That kind of confidence? way, way sexy.

I'm a lady, and I went to the aforementioned Hollywood Bowl concert - the Bowl was packed, but at intermission, there was NO LINE for the ladies' room. There were even empty stalls! I overheard one man on the way back to my seat say "the clubs in West Hollywood are empty tonight." And that's the power of teh sexy, ladies and germs.

As for this year's list: not bad, not bad. I'm not so into the posed sensitivity of Anderson Cooper and Ira Glass, though. I fell outta love with pretentious egotism after I finished grad school.

Stephen Colbert Warrior Poet.

^Jesus. Look at me, lambasting someone for getting their facts wrong and, like an idiot, I go ahead and misspell Paul FEIG's name. Feig, folks. Sorry...carry on.

All together now....

Judd Apatow DID NOT CREATE "Freaks and Geeks." Yes, he is a very funny and prolific writer/director/producer. Yes, he was instrumental in getting that show on the air. Yes, he was a writer and exec. producer.

But the show was created by Paul Feid, who almost never, ever gets the credit he deserves as the show's sole creator.

In at least every other piece on the internet ever written about Apatow, he is incorrectly cited as F&G's creator.

Can we get a fact-checker, please?