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The folks over at TBD ranked the top-10 meanest things that outgoing Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion editor Robin Givhan has ever written. This, written about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (right) really takes the mean-cake: "One of the reasons Harris is so easy to mock is because she, to be honest, seems to have applied her makeup with a trowel. At this moment that so desperately needs diplomacy, understatement and calm, one wonders how this Republican woman, who can't even use restraint when she's wielding a mascara wand, will manage to use it and make sound decisions in this game of partisan one-upmanship." [TBD]