Earlier this year, the two men posed together in what Philadelphia Style magazine billed as its "sexiest issue ever."

"It's not a sexy issue, and I think we've got to make it that."

The sexier issues of bad behavior by the major league models who keep the mills grinding seem to obscure the real violence.

It certainly wasn't a sexy issue, and, in fact, I think people got tired of hearing about it.

Helping poor children, helping families - these are not "sexy" issues.

The nuts and bolts of banking and housing legislation were not "sexy" issues.

And it identifies date rape as an easier, sexier issue to deal with than incipient alcoholism.

Q: Third world debt is not an inherently sexy issue.

That's why he puts you on the big, sexy issues like the census.

Better management is rarely a sexy political issue but this year it just might be - and it should be.