The Divine Miss P.

In honor of today's manufactured political "controversy" (not to be confused, of course, with yesterday's or tomorrow's), I thought perhaps we should calm our campaign-weary souls by thinking about the original Pig in Lipstick.

After all, Miss Piggy was and remains an endearingly class act - a sort of Jayne Mansfield for the under-eight set...

And very likely the only pig ever photographed by Avedon...

...Which is more than any of the pigs in the news these days can say.