Jessica Simpson offers this thought du jour at a media session in T.O.:

Too skinny looks ... (furrows brow) ... bad?

That was from a woman who once asked for "yellow sauce" on a hot dog.

It's a little like shooting fish in a barrel, but there were a few choice tidbits about her in a Globe yarn on Saturday:

Think of her as the female George W. Bush.

Like her president, she is a cipher -- a blank slate who has been packaged into an icon. "Jessica Simpson is incredibly unthreatening and adequately bland," says Dale Hrabi, New York-based author of US Weekly's Secrets of Celebrity Style. ...

This busty personification of Bush-era values has managed to elbow her way into the coveted wartime role of America's Sweetheart -- the one that Britney vacated the night she got hammered and hitched in Vegas. Unlike Spears, Simpson seems to have little angst or frustration about her role as the Good Girl.

Hrabi says she should not be entirely dismissed. "She has charisma and comic timing, and she's beautiful in an everything's-too-big American kind of way." ...

It's an astonishing level of fame for a blandly pretty blonde with no truly discernible skills. Simpson has been compared to Paris Hilton as yet another "talentless, manufactured celebrity." But unlike Hilton, who was born an heiress/party girl, has been caught in a sex scandal and is given to musings on the beauty of branding, Simpson seemingly has no dark side. Weirder than being famous for being famous, Simpson is famous for being boring. Perhaps, in this sense, she is the celebrity that America deserves. ...

According to Liisa Ladouceur, a music and pop culture critic for CBC, Eye Weekly and US magazine, Simpson's star status is a sign of a larger cultural fear.

"It's Janet Jackson's fault," she says. "Before her nipple thing, pop stars were getting skankier and skankier. Say what you want, at least Britney and Christina were pushing the boundaries of what we felt comfortable seeing our pop stars exhibit.

"Then the nipple popped out and America got scared. So instead we get Jessica Simpson, with her religious family values and her father in the background with a finger on the marketing dollar. The truth is, we'd rather have someone who's stupid than truly sexual."

And that, folks, is my one and only Jessica Simpson posting for this lifetime. I'm ashamed that I yielded to temptation this time, but that 'bad?' remark was just too juicy to pass up. :)

And no, I won't be going to see the film she's promoting.