What is it about men and guns?

We love all these hardassed guys in law enforcement, showing off their guns and pistols (and we don’t mean firearms) for a new 2007 calender that features New Jersey’s mighty-mighty finest.

Nasty looking fuckers, aren’t they? But then you’d have to be — or at least look that way — just to patrol the streets of Tony Soprano’s home state.

Oh we know other states have their hot cops and hot firemen and even undress them for calendars.

And to those other states, we say fabulash!! Keep up the good work. We have a very low threshold for going nuts over stuff like this.

But when all is said and done — and done is very much the operative wish, if not word, here — there’s something about that mean, Northeastern edge …that hardcore urban grit … that gives these Jersey cops such a potent air of menace. You just know they’re walking around with loads too much testosterone.

And no one should have to carry that load alone, n’est-ce pas Nightcharmers? (read the full article)

It’s getting a might scary looking in Peckerwood, hey, Dolly?

Dolly Parton, who has been out of the public eye for awhile, appeared last night to pick up a beribboned award, that was placed around her neck by the President, as one of five recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.

The Kennedy Center Honors are considered to be the premier event in America’s cultural life: an award for very famous artists who are chosen by a a panel of very famous artists, and usually presided over by the President. (Barbra Streisand has repeatedly refused the award because she didn’t want to receive one — and you gotta love the sheer Babsyness of this — “while a Republican was in office.”) (read the full article)