Yes. Yes, you might.

How about a $250 Bill Clinton haircut, but then you have to block a whole airport.

Well, to be fair, isn't she The Post's fashion reporter? How can one report on something as fundamentally insubstantial as fashion and not be shallow?

She could do an expose about the practical style of various inexpensive winter coats for the homeless living in northern climates.

Must be a thrill for WaPo to allow so much "valuable" print space for such a worthy statement of Bolton's hearings. I suppose that they have had enough op-eds already skewing his positions and belittling his abilities. So they might just as well stoop to picking on his clothes and hair cut.

Makes you wonder where she stands on the issue of how he'd perform as the UN ambassador. You know, something that would actually take brain cells to come to a conclusion on.

Bleedin heck! I just reviewed some of her bylines, and it looks like she really is the fashion reporter. Moreover, the story is on page C1, which is the front of the Style section -- which is, by definition, the fluffiest, least relevant section of the Post.

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I didn't know that hair style was a dividing concept in the world or a problem for the UN, but it's good to see that John Bolton closely identifies with 99% of the peoples of the world that don't have designer hair styles.

If there every is a UNHAIR scandal, you can be sure that John Bolton will draw on the hair experts of the nation. Meanwhile, he will confine his "cuts" and "trims" to the budgetary type.

pennywit -

You are implying that I didn't KNOW that she was the fashion reporter? That still doesn't mean that she has license to be a nitwit free from my criticism.

And given the fact that barely ayone subscribes to the print edition of the Post any longer, I really don't care where it sits on the paper version - it was above the fold, A1-A - online.

Well, she does have a point. He does look a little overly scruffy. I'm sure SuperCuts would do. He could take in the moustache too, I think. It hangs down a bit low. He looks like he should be whittling something while chewing on hay or something.

My idea of a makeover for Bolton?

How he looks when his foot is in Kofi Annan's ass.

Honestly, Bill, I didn't know if you knew.

And next: placement still matters; a significant number of people do still read the print edition.

And I might also note that in the modern image age, how a nominee presents himself can provide insight on Washington culture (and coiffure) for the uninitiated.

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pennywit -

Read the first line of my post again. :-)

Bill,

Your analysis is mostly correct. She is a "shallow twit."

Ah. I think I subconsciously capitalized it, as the Post Style writers seem an eclectic lot.

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gents, you're laboring points under the thin assumption that said hair actually springs from Bolton's head... I think not. mind you, not as presentable as paul krugman's divot (the Kroogie Kut, as I like to call it), but a RUG none the less.

Curly Howard: "A Tarantula!!!"

His hair was so poorly cut, it bordered on rude.

Hair can be rude? Suit wrinkles can be insolent?

Ummm... I know pet owners do it, but since when has fashion gone anthropomorphic?

Oh good grief!

"Shallow twit" is awfully generous...