Courtney Friel, Political Scientist

This entry goes to show that hot bikini-blogging is more than shameless link-whoring for Robert Stacy McCain's weekend babe-linking roundup. Sure, the traffic's great, of course, but I actually wanted to report on the versatility of political science as an academic major. That's right, it turns out that Courtney Friel, who is an entertainment reporter at Fox News, earned a degree in political science from San Diego State University.

Now, not everyone will look as good as Courtney Friel in a bikini, so an added bonus for women seeking careers in political science - especially at the graduate level - is that that the discipline boasts some of the very best in radical feminist scholarship!

For example, check out Cynthia Enloe's Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link. As the book blurb book indicates, at Professor Enloe's homepage:

Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative book takes seriously women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized as a strategy to explain how militarism is being globalized and thus what it will take to roll back militarized societies and assumptions.

Hmm, "men's fears of being feminized"? Does that include worries over the social acceptability of knitting? I'm going to leave that one to Repsac3: "The Real Scurge of Gay Marriage..."

Of course, some of my testosterone-addled readers might rather want to visit the beautiful hot totties at Theo Spark's!

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UPDATE: Theo Spark links!

McCain! You are a genius!