With regards to Fabio, I too had regarded him as a male bimbo, but after reading this I have a newfound respect for the man.

BTW, there is nothing loony about going green, although weeing ourselves off arab oil for national security reasons and to tell the arabs to go fuck themselves is an even better reason.

AND because he owes his success to women.

I don’t care for Hillary but I’ve often said that, evil she may be, but she’s not *dumb*. There’s comfort of a sort in self-interest that is absent from, oh, someone like Bush who is motivated by higher ideals. That I think Bush is right doesn’t mean I don’t see the danger of true selflessness and vision (or whatever). Self-interest puts limits on behavior. Not the same limits as other outlooks but limits none the less.

And Fabio is not the only one who views her as a hawk. I don’t want to see her in control of the military (I served under Bill) but I don’t think she’s dovish at all.

It is very *very* fun to read the article about Fabio. He just lets it all hang out there, you know?

And Book, I always found Fabio somewhat repulsive in the sort of sleezy, well-used and probably not sanitary way of a man sl*t. Which is probably unfair because who knows? But his image was such and not appealing to me.

But that one commercial he was in on television… he’s pushing a gondola with a beautiful woman, it says something about Fabio perfume and romance, and then it cuts back to him and he’s OLD and he goes “rwoaow”. And it’s really about retirement planning. It was too funny and I figure someone with a sense of humor like that about himself was excused all the beefcake shtick.

I don’t know that I’d go as far as “heartthrob” but, yeah, I like Fabio.