OK,
OK; we can get a mulligan on stuff like this, right? 'Cause we're not
perfect, and we'll be dead honest with you: we weren't all that happy
about yesterday's Crush of the Week.
Yeah, it was an amusing story, and yeah, the new Italian Equal
Opportunity minister is pretty foxy, but really, when you get down to
it: there wasn't much to crush about there, unless lecherous old
Italian dudes do it for you, and even then we should have crushed on
Silvio Berlusconi, right? And that happening. But dammit, our allergies
have been acting up, and we're not getting enough sleep, and well, we
weren't feeling all that crushy about anybody, and so we went with the
best thing that we had.
Now, normally if we'd just kind of
phoned something in like that, we'd let you pound on us in the comments
and take our lumps proudly and we'd all walk away from the incident as
quickly as possible. But not this week. Because last night, mere hours
after publishing that CotW, we found our true-life, honest to Gosh,
full-throated Crush of the Week -- so crushy in his manly sense of
civic duty that we had to share him with you: John Fetterman, Mayor of
the economically depressed Pittsburgh borough known as Braddock.
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