For some reason, netroots policy wonks from the political “left”:http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/thought_of_the_day_11.php and “right”:http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/can_a_bad_actor_play_a_good_on.php today expressed unusual interest in “The Almost It Girl,” (Digital Reader link “here”:http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2003-10-20#folio=096) a 2003 Rebecca Mead profile of Jaime Pressly and its lengthy “abstract”:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/20/031020fa_fact_mead. (That’s ‘i’ before ‘m’ and no ‘e’ in the surname.)