O Cheekbones! My Cheekbones!

Mike Gravel (former Senator from Alaska, current Dem presidential candidate) has produced some YouTube spots so existential in their natural spirituality that some have compared him to the Transcendentalists of yore. The LA Times writes "Mike Gravel is to political advertising what Ralph Waldo Emerson is to the essay, Walt Whitman to poetry." The more politically and artistically astute might wonder -- is the modern-day political ad an art form capable of comparison to great poetry and prose? Is it appropriate to compare the artistic merits of a fringe presidential candidate to those of our country's greatest literary minds? We, however, ask - how do those cheekbones stand up! We turn to the CCS© for answers...


1. Walt Whitman

On the CCS©, Walt gets a solid 7. Those cheekbones are looking mighty damn high. Bone structure like that would normally get an 8, but, unfortunately, his crazy old man beard makes it difficult to judge the strength of his jaw-line.









2. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Again with the cheekbones! It seems all of that time reading the Bhagavad Gita while holed up in some cabin in the middle of nowhere does wonders for the bone structure. We admit that the nose is a bit distracting, but again, with cheekbones that high, we can go no lower than a 7 on the CCS©.





3. Mike Gravel

.......And then there is Mike Gravel. Gravel barely rings in at a 4, and thats a very, very generous 4. While making a 7 minute video of a fire smoldering might say transcendental to some, the cheekbones don't lie!