Can I Get a Collective Eye Roll?

Apparently it's that time again. The Hill takes a break from wonky political reporting to instead tell us who we should be hitting on at Capitol Hill bars. That's right, it's The Hill's 50 Most Beautiful. Or not yet, but it's time to vote for them.

For our dear readers who operate outside of the District bubble, The Hill spends most of it's time giving politicians the journalistic equivalent of a hand job by reporting on policy that no one cares about outside the Beltway and giving them a forum to flip each other off through anonymous quotes. But once a year, they instead turn to masturbation and definitively prove the old adage that DC is Hollywood for ugly people.

It's not so much offensive that the people are ugly...which they are. Imagine the 50 hottest workers on Wall Street. And the Wall Street crowd doesn't make the Hill workers' measly $28k, even post-recession. Or the 50 hottest in PR? You'd have to add a talent competition just to narrow the field. Truly, look at the 2008 list and tell me that there's not a pretty serious curve they're grading on over on Capitol Hill. (Note to those included last year: not that y'all aren't good looking, just that I've seen better.)

But still, that's not the main thing. The main thing is this idea that politics is a place for you to become famous. That making a Senator's copies somehow makes you special...and all the more so if you're attractive while you do it. People are plenty good (and plenty hot) at tons of other jobs, and no one feels the need to make a list like this. It's like having People Magazine...for my high school.

Which brings me to my actual point: this list is high school. And from people who should be old enough--and god knows entrusted with important enough responsibilities--to know better. Whatever, I'm probably just pissy because Hill interns (and the supervisors who sleep with them) are wicked annoying.