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From Bama with Bite: Sexy politics

Also: Brigitte can doll it up for a good cause.

In case you want to check out the latest idea put forward by Tommy Tuberville that we mostly agree with. This is a rare event. Worth clicking on the link, totally.

Taylor did like the photo (taken by the great Ottawa photographer Ashley Fraser) at last year’s Politics and the Pen event. The event is usually in the spring but this past spring we were in an election so it got pushed back to September 24. My dear friend Stephen Maher’s excellent biography of Justin Trudeau is a finalist for the prize.

But you want to hear about sex. In politics, even. Or at least sexy vibes. The memes around California Governor Gavin Newsom are indeed adorable. It’s not the first time politicians get suggestive, though. Like, check out this sultry number from the 1950s. “Adlai, love you madly” is a tough one to beat.

And just because misery loves company, here is, by painfully earnest contrast, one of the ads that got Eiseinhower elected president. You, too, can have this awful ditty stuck in your head all night!

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