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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