Arthur D. Hlavaty

Beauty up close

Thanx to Body Impolitic

New York by night, from above

Thanx to andrewducker

The new Miss America is an Indian woman who looks Indian. Miss Indias tend to look more American.

Thanx to Mary Anne Mohanraj on Facebook.

ETA: On the other hand, some of our more differently intelligent Americans have noticed that she belongs to the vast Unwhite race that bombed the Twin Towers.

Thanx to Jezebel

Beauty contestant makes reasonable comment about who should be eligible. Wins anyway.

Thanx to Shakesville

A lovely woman our society considers morbidly tall. Of course the post inspired at least one loser to whip out his tiny malformed libido and flog it in her direction, perhaps in the belief that he was bespattering her, rather than himself.

Thanx to Chronicle