Hot or Not?

So I really hesitated to admit this the first time. In fact, I think maybe Christina is the only one I told. But now, I no longer have to be embarrassed about the fact that I a little bit think Ahmadinejad is hot.

I'm sorry, I know. He denies the Holocaust and the existence of gays. And dammit, he's short! Nonetheless, it's true.

But now, the internet has done what it does best: make freaky freaks with freaky interests feel normal. There is apparently a whole community of people with just my strange affection:

Then again, if it's on Daily Kos, it's fine, right? Witness:
"I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon..."

And USA Today! The Washington Post! It's practically mainstream.

See also, some random blog:
Jezebel, So Is Ahmadinejad Kindof Hot?
Not as reliable as the Washington Post, but I'll take it.

Let me go ahead and offer a small caviat. I think he's only hot in world leader circles. Not in the real world. Like how Noah Feldman is hot in law professor world.

Though to be honest, looking at the photos, they might both be normal-world-pretty-good.

[Please under no circumstances should anyone take this as any other sort of statement of parallelism. As far as I can tell Feldman is actually a lovely person.]