Personally, I'd rather to get my hard news from a smiling, hair-sprayed honey than some grizzled Cronkite talking head.

Hearing about the economy's nose dive or endless world unrest, is so much easier to take when it comes from a hot blond with just a hint too much eye makeup. And apparently I'm not alone.

The inmates over at Asylum.com recently ran a story of the Top 20 Hottest Newscasters, prompting guys everywhere to write in to offer props to their own favorite sexy anchors.

So, in the spirit of the democracy that's made this country great, they've decided to take all the suggested "news-breaking babes" and let we the people vote for the "Hottest Newscaster of the Year". The Supreme Court is on standby, just in case.

Enter your vote here.

Mercury Morris gets to talk smack for one more year...

One year. Over 5 million votes. 99 incredibly sexy women. And a helluva good reason to blow off everything else and spend a couple of hours in front of your monitor.

Yesterday, AskMen.com released their 8th annual list of the world's Top 99 Most Desirable Women. The key word there is "Desirable". Not "Hottest". Not "Sexiest". Not "Most Beautiful". But most desirable.

See, AskMen asked men to choose women from music, fashion and entertainment that they feel best represent the full range of the qualities that guys want most in a potential mate. To take into consideration things like intelligence, humor, charisma and ambition. (But we're guys, so you know beauty had to figure in our voting at least a little.)

Grey's Anatomy hottie, Katherine Heigl takes top honors (she plays a doc on the show, so I guess intelligence does count), with Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio taking the number 2 spot. Kate Beckinsdale, whose charisma looked fantastic in that latex body suit in Underworld, completes the top three. ...More