and for those of you who are not current on looksism, it is the type of improper bias by which employers are constantly hiring really great looking people and paying them more and promoting them further in preference to the rest of us who are more homely. [laughter] and, yes, it's unfair, and, yes, it's unfair, but not until around the time the harvard law review ran an interminable -- i shouldn't say that -- 80 or 90-page student note on the need for the law to combat looksism. not until around then had it been thought that it was much of an issue for the law. but there in, i believe, the year 1999 there appeared this extremely long harvard law review student note, and it department take too long before -- it didn't take too long before looksism became an interest for legislators and for judges. indeed, the district of columbia right here has passed one ordnance banning looksism, and so have a number of other municipalities leading to cases like the one reported a couple of years back of the gentleman who was finding it hard to keep his job at a retail outlet because of the multiple ton