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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Gore, and...excuse, me, but - over on your own Beyond the Multiplex page - NOAH BAUMBACH. And have any of you gotten a load of Ludovic Lefebvre? Zut alors, now there's a sexy chef.
For the love of chunk! Where's Phillip Seymour Hoffman? Love him. love him.
I cannot believe you omitted the sexiest man alive--my husband!!! He's a teacher, smart, sensitive, has perfect pitch and flawless rhythm (he plays drums in his offtime) and drives me wild with desire. He is compact--no excessive musculature--with Lennon glasses, an adorable goatee and a biting sense of irony. I guess you left him out because he is neither rich nor famous, he's just perfect. Oh, well.
Yes, definitely Clive Owen and Alan Rickman.
Also how about the sexy saviors of the world: Bono, Geldof and that totally hot economist, George Monbiot?
Finally, to add some non-US diversity to the list, I'd like to include the ENTIRE All-Black Rugby Team of New Zealand. Watch 'em doing the Haka, and dare to disagree:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gifMMB_TNJo&feature=related
Sadly, the leader/caller, Tana Umaga (my choice for sexiest man in the world), retired from international rugby last year--but the Haka is always good, no matter who leads.
The thing that makes these guys so sexy is that, while they exhibit this savage, primieval fierceness on the field, in person they are gentle as the lambs for which Aotearoa is also famous. (But please, no more sheep jokes).
It's likely the Salon editorial staff may not wish to include my comment responding to this story, but I have been much concerned of late about the amount of "soft", pseudo "human interest" stuff appearing on Salon during the past 6 months or more at the expense of important investigative reports. I feel that your staff ought to consider my concerns, since I have also read a number of letters by others to Salon expressing the same sorts of disappointments with articles run lately.
For example, this one on the prettiest male celebrities, another on Hillary's "datability", the crap being flung at each other by the candidates in TV "debates" that no one bothers to watch anyway except the pundits seeking a "gotcha" moment, and a recent really nonsensical one on "who needs a Prius ?". The list of such dreck on Salon is quite extensive nowadays.
As a reader since its very first appearence on the 'net, I remember with deep appreciation the days when highly informed, hard hitting pundits like Joe Conason ran a series of investigative articles on Salon about critical issues that that the "mainstream" press ignored.
The long series of stories on the "Arkansas Project", for example, was exemplary journalism.
I don't expect much from Huffington Post, as another example, since Ariana (sp?) is evidently hooked on trivia, sensation, and gratuitous Hillary bashing - - although it still contains some real news that is ignored by the corporate press, so it's worth browsing. But I have come to expect more from Salon. Gary Kamiya is excellent, as are a few others - and Joe Conason and Sidney Blumental in weekly columns. But the silly dreck far outnumbers critical, investigative reports nowadays.
How about some reports on the real reasons there is apparently less violence occuring in Iraq of late ? AlterNet ran a short series on the truth behind this situation in Iraq with numerous citations from Iraqis actually on the scene.
Frankly, the list of news wire stories are the only real items of real interest for me lately on Salon. What's happened to investigative reports resulting from "gum shoe' journalism ? Some other 'net sites continue serious and penetrating journalistic contributions.
What's happening at Salon ?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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