no one left to lie on

This is a photo of Eleanor Mondale, a woman President Clinton was seeing at the same time as Monica. She's Grace Kelly to Lewinsky's Teach For America.

It's fun to guess how our political perceptions--and our formed ethics--can be thrown off by cosmetic differences (much to the chagrin of left utopians).

For example: would the Clinton story have played out differently if Lewinsky had been an excellent-looking blonde? Think back on the Eliot Spitzer feeding-frenzy: completely amplified by the call-girl's good looks.

By the same token, how would our perceptions of a finely tuned leftist artifact like Brokeback Mountain be percieved if instead of good-looking actors, the two leads had been portrayed by overweight asian men? I imagine the look on Randy Quaid's face when he nocs the two gents wrestling in the mud would be...different.