By the way, this is a DC blog. Sorta.

You may have forgotten that this is the blog of someone who lives in the moral and ethical center of this nation. No, not Greenville, South Carolina*.

The exact locus of that center is known as "The Hill". Now, for you foreigners, that doesn't really mean the neighborhood known as Capitol Hill (which is nice, quaint, and all), no, it really means the only place here that really matters - the actual buildings and the throngs of humanoids that work in them. It's so important that it has its own newspaper (well, two of them, actually) named for itself. So imagine our shock that this newspaper would plumb the murky depths of frivolity in naming its "50 Most Beautiful" on the Hill for 2005.

Evidently, this has been going on for a few years already. (You see what happens when I leave the Republican-heavy world of transportation building associations for the apostasy of liberal international development non-profits? I completely lose touch with everything that makes this place tick.)

I love these kinds of lists (People magazine tops among them. So intriguing, yet so irrelevant). But this one you have to see to believe. Rather than make fun of anybody for their looks (I'm a bitch, but I'm not a mean bitch), I'll just refer you to the list itself. These are the people who are running your country, people! (Or they are cleaning up after those who are. Whatever.)

Oh, screw it, here's the top gal and the top guy (actually Barack Obama was top guy, but I don't think he's all that, not compared to guy #2 below).

Much more entertaining is the expected reaction from the blogging heads (the bitchy, the mean, and otherwise).

Wonkette gets the ball rolling with an overview of who's busting on whom about the silliness (and the not totally surprising homelyness) of this list.

Of these, my favorite is the "Boi From Troy" analysis. Frankly, it's a scream. You get to vote on/guess the Kinsey score of some of the cutest boys that made the list (though it's a dang small group).

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*home of Bob Jones University!