There are two things I can tell you upon which you can count. First, I’m not a supporter of PETA. Second, you couldn’t pay me enough to watch an episode of “Dancing With The Stars.” But, much like foxholes make strange bedfellows, every once in a while you find common ground with entities to which you might normally never come within a million miles. This would be one of those times.

PETA’s been on my list ever since they decided that I, as an angler who chooses to release the marlin I catch, am somehow worse to the cosmos than the guy who kills his fish since, in their minds, what I do amounts to torturing the animals for pleasure. Interesting point, and an interesting insight into how their thought processes work. I can’t help but wonder what color the sky is in their world, but I’m guessing it’s blood red – the same tone as the slop they throw on celebrities caught wearing fur in public. As I said, we don’t see eye to eye.

The one thing I can respect about PETA is the effectiveness of their advertisements. The concept is the same – get a PETA-supporting actress to shed her clothes for photographs, props in all the appropriate places of course, and declare her desire to go naked rather than wear fur. Let’s face it – it caught my attention sufficiently enough that I’m writing about it, and that’s in no small part because of their new ad featuring DWTS house dancer Karina Smirnoff. Now, short of hitting Wikipedia, all I can tell you about her is that she’s named after a decent vodka and certainly has the body of a dancer, as is clearly evident in her ad. Of course, I have no idea whether there were PETA representatives on site for the shoot, so for all I know she had her fur coat waiting just off set. But her willingness to get naked for a cause puts a smile on our collective faces, and is enough to receive the honor of Weekend Eye Candy.