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I feel really bad for Spears. The press really needs to leave her alone.

I still think Spears will be dead by summer. I have money riding on that right now as well.

And good old Charlie Atlas? The part they did not show in the comic was how the bully and the "wimp" had hot man on man sex in the beach. Hard sweaty bodies and hard throbbing... you get the picture.

I want Charles Atlas to make me a new man.

Hell, while he's at it, I want him to make me a couple of new men.

Yes! Yes! I've always loved guys who were thin enough to look one step shy of anorexia. These models will cause millions of fags to become that, and it'll be a smorgasbord for me!

That settles it. I'm going to start vomiting up my meals.

men could always have anorexia too, now they have an incentive.

Nicholas Kristof in today's New York Times on the question of which Democrat is more electable. Intriguing stuff:

Mr. Obama does surprisingly well among evangelical Christians, an important constituency in swing states. For example, Relevant magazine, which caters to young evangelicals, asked its readers: “Who would Jesus vote for?” Mr. Obama was the winner and came out 27 percentage points ahead of Mrs. Clinton.

Politicians from red states have seemed likely to endorse Mr. Obama because many see him as the Democratic candidate who will do better in their states.

Mmmmm.....meth chic.....

what the fuck is wrong with that designer? i'm not going to forgo the muscle i've worked hard for just to look like some wafer thin sickly looking guy who looks like he achieved his figure from doing Meth and Ectasy. this isn't the message we want to be sending to 14-25 y.o gay/bi boys who are already having issues with self esteem and being completely self conscious of their looks, body weight, and want to look like the models on GAP, GQ, A&F, and the pornos.

I'll continue to lift weights and bike. Skinny doesn't do it for me.

Nobody's trying to take away your "supplements," boys. Calm. Calm.

@9 That's exactly the message we want to send, dammit!

Does it make me old that I remember those Chuck Atlas ads from my childhood comic books?

Don't answer that, you disrespectful punks.

Excuse me? Sixpacks are not out. I say so.

&@1 - EXACTLY.

Lola, I'm right there with you. I remember those Atlas ads well. Gay porno for closeted teenagers in the 1970s. Those hot hot leopard-skin speedos. Those abs. I was insanely jealous and insanely insecure and insanely closeted, but I could not tear my eyes off those Atlas ads.

*sigh*

Pathetic, I know...

@7
yes until $100 million of hit ads showing drug dealers, terrorists and quoting Obama that drugs "helped me as a teenager" and that he thinks our foreign policy should be decided by what foreigners think of us -- at that point evangelicals and other middle american swing voters will freak out.

Oh, I forgot, we are not allowed to discuss or imagine that rather predictable course of events. Pls. pass the kool aid, Obama will unite all of us, etc. etc.

Meanwhile, ROMNEY IS OUT.

@13 and @15 -Yep, I remember those Charles Atlas ads, too. My favorite part was that burst: "HERO OF THE BEACH!" I say that at work whenever someone does something brilliant or dumb - I don't know if anyone gets it though.

Three questions I'd like to hear the answers for when Clinton is here:

1. Are you getting any money from the Clinton Foundation?

2. Did any of that $5 mil Bill just loaned your campaign come from the $20 million kickback he just got for helping with that dirty uranium mine deal with the dictator of Uzbekistan?

3. A month ago Bill said "they say you couldn’t stop me from spending all the money I’ve saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform." What's changed since then?

Leave Brittney alone.

Fnarf, it's the first sign that she's starting to have serious trouble - not even counting her senior staff taking pay cuts.

I actually ordered those x-ray specs!!!!!! As a first-grader, I thought they would work. But, alas, they did not.

I just want to respond to that ludicrous New York Times column @7 saying that Barack Obama is somehow more electable than Hillary Clinton. Maybe Nicholas Kristof should get out of his ivory tower some time and see how the real world works.

What Karl Rove and gang did to John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 is nothing – I mean nothing – compared to what the well-oiled Clinton attack machine will do to John McCain in 2008 with months and months to work on him. When they're done with him, John McCain will wish he was back in the Hanoi Hilton. When they're done with Cindy "younger woman" McCain, she'll she was back in the Hanoi Hilton.

Folks, Hillary will do to McCain what the Hillary nutcracker does to a pistachio. Hillary will do to McCain what Jack Bauer does to some dude named Mohammed when a nuclear bomb is about to go off in LA. People, there's a reason Hillary has been equivocal on torture. And it's not just because she's one tough broad.

You don't think, when McCain envisions the prospect of running against Hillary, he has flashbacks to his POW days? When McCain sees Obama, he sees some prissy, young West Point cadet who is well-versed in military history. When McCain sees Hillary, he sees the ruthless captors who left him unable to lift up his arms.

I guarantee you once Hillary secures the nomination, you're going to see a spike in the number of pages that show up when you google the words "McCain" and "senile." I guarantee you that once Hillary secures the nomination, we're going to be hearing a lot of worrying about letting a crazy, old man have his finger on the button.

Let's remember, John McCain is a maverick reformer and a true fiscal conservative. The Clinton campaign will do a great job of reminding people what a wildcard he could be in the White House. Who knows what crazy things he might do? Balance the budget? Champion some global warming legislation that has some real teeth? Not give any pork-barrel projects to Boeing? I mean, it's scary what this guy might try to do once he actually has all that power.

With Hillary our nominee, instead of Democrats having to defend Barack Hussein Obama against charges that he's a drug-pushing Muslim, it is Republicans who will have to defend John Hussein McCain against charges that he's a pill-popping traitor.

Folks, just remember. The economy is weak. The nation is at war. The people may want change, but they're afraid of change. The people are, well, just afraid. And fear always triumphs over hope.

Clinton 2008.

Ooh, that burns, Cressona!

Will, as usual you miss the point. Whether or not she's having "trouble" or not is not what I'm driving at. I want her to answer questions of financial sleaze. Since we're so focused on who's going to attack whom in the general election, I thought I'd mention a few very obvious charges from yesterday. Her husband is, I think, going to continue to be a very serious liability, and not for the reasons people usually bring up. That Uzbeki deal just frigging reeks.

@21 McCain is crazy? Look in the fucking mirror! You seriously need help.

Poor Cressona sounds like someone who is losing his/her mind. Please calm down. It's just some guy's (Kristof) opinion.

Poor slog commenters don't get satire.

actually, the cressona rant was kind of funny.

Oops. My bad, Cressona.

@7,

Relevant magazine also showed that evangelicals pretty much view Hillary as the anti-Christ.

We have a real opportunity to convince religious voters to vote their self-interest and/or vote for issues like war and poverty instead of abortion and gays. They're never going to switch parties for Clinton. They might do it for Obama.

Those Charles Atlas ads reach down into a young man's psyche and twist something. I remember them well, especially the versions they used in the 70s that had the triumphant man punching the bully while shouting "Now it's your turn to dry up and blow away!" Scary.

Ohhh, looks like the some of the DUDES in the fashion biz finally got to got a little tug at the sense of insecurity their female counterparts have been getting beaten with all these years.

Those kids aren't even that skinny. I'm 6'2", 165lbs, and appear nearly as thin. No one is worried about the health of those models or the influence it will have on young people, there's just a couple of fellers with guts, or maybe some gym rats worried they're going out of vogue.

Nothing will change. The article still uses words like "androgynous" and points to their lack of masculinity, by way of lacking bulk, as proof. Boys with serious body image disorders will bulky an found on the baseball fields and wrestling mats in Anytown Highschool, USA, just as they have been for the last 35 years.

I ordered the American dollars (Confederate money) - it was kind of funny, cause I was living in B.C. at the time.

Well, Fnarf, we can all wish for the moon, but we're not all Jim Carey.

Might want to update the "Hillary loans her self $5M" story...

Turns out to be just another great big fat Clintonian lie: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4257358&page=1