Area man refuses to openly acknowledge attractiveness of opera singer Denyce Graves (Photo: Associated Press)

WTOP leans heavily on anonymous sources in its piece on a Travel + Leisure survey rating D.C. one of America's most unattractive cities—the sixth least attractive, to be specific. The news outlet could find no locals who would attach their names to commentary concerning this arbitrary distinction.

Comments granted anonymous sourcing in this story: "It has to do with the politicians"; "They clearly haven't seen the women at Curves"; "D.C. has its fair share of 'hotties.'" One man refused to attach his name to the opinion that opera singer Denyce Graves is an attractive woman.

BELOW: Courtland Milloy goes to the movies; transgender groups remember their fallen; George W. Bush spies a fetus:

ON NOV. 18, local trans groups will commemorate the National Transgemder Day of Remembrance at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington D.C. Trans Commerce Department appointee Amanda Simpson will speak.

COURTLAND MILLOY goes to the movies, hates it:

I saw the movie at the AMC Magic Johnson theaters in Largo, with a predominantly black audience. At first, most folks seemed giddy with anticipation—the mood having been set by a trailer for Martin Lawrence's horrid-looking follow-up to "Big Momma's House," in which he is made up to look like a bloated black woman with breasts down to her knees.

Hardy har har.

AMANDA MARCOTTE weighs in on that weird Barbara Bush's fetus-in-a-jar thing that George W. says influenced his anti-abortion beliefs:

Why do I think Bush is full of shit, besides the fact that he tells other, verifiable whoppers in his story? A couple of reasons. For one, the woman who supposedly set him on this path, his mother, is pro-choice, as was his father until it became too much of a problem for him politically not to switch sides. We have every reason to believe that, within the Bush family, being anti-abortion is not actually felt as a value. It’s just something you feed the rubes to get them to vote for you.

Not that I doubt that Bush Jr. is indeed anti-choice. I think he’s a believing evangelical Christian, and yes, that he buys their line on abortion. But his conversion to Christianity was literally decades after this supposed event. Moreover, his administration also fought strongly against attempts to expand contraception usage, which would prevent abortion and therefore the killing of fetuses. Someone who was truly moved by the supposed plight of fetuses would do everything in his power to make sure that fewer were conceived accidentally, and therefore likely to be aborted. But Bush pushed abstinence-only education that denounced contraception, and the FDA under him tried to slow contraception use. All this resorts in more fetuses being created against women’s will, which means more abortions.

SHENANDOAH students stage Angels in America; PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF EX-GAYS wiggles onto the World Bank charity list; MOTHER separated from baby on Metro train; VIRGINIA MAN accused of harassing and assaulting a man lister on the Sex Offender Registry.