Southern hair and John Edwards

By now, Anne Coulter's idiotic comment about John Edwards has probably been blogged to death. But I think I know what, outside of her general hatred for liberals, might have prompted such an assumption. It's his hair.

Men in the South, particularly the upscale ones (lawyers and such), all have the same haircut. It's parted on one side or the other, fairly short except on the top which sweeps across the skull and skims the forehead. There are neat little sideburns that mysteriously merge into the overall style. It always looks exactly the same. I think guys like Edwards adopt this haircut at puberty and go, as they say down here, "to the arms of Jesus" with the same style. It often looks like it's been treated to a liberal dose of hairspray, although I have no idea if it actually is kept in place by something with chemicals in it.

The haircut is so "pretty" that it prompted this spoof, starring Edwards in a Breck shampoo ad, so I'm clearly not the first person to notice this.

If Ann Coulter finds John Edwards effeminate, she's never seen him walk up the stairs onto a stage wearing jeans. Trust me, this is one sexy guy.

Ann Coulter has nice neat hair too. I guess that's the only positive thing I can say about her.