Michelle Malkin's asymmetrical face.

I've been thinking about what your face says about you a lot lately, and noticed that many people have strikingly asymmetrical faces. You don't usually notice it in person, but in pictures it can be quite obvious.

One comment on Sadly, No! suggests an adage that the right side is how you want people to see you, the left how you really are (or vice versa). Interesting idea.

I wonder how the left-brain/right-brain stuff affects your face. With me, one side tends to look more "serious", while the other side seems to show more emotion. Could our faces become less symmetrical over time if we tend to hide our true feelings? Can you trust someone who's left-face doesn't match the right?

One famous asymmetrical face belongs to Alfred E. Neuman.

Is the resemblance a coincidence?

It strikes me that when the archetype for a fool, slacker, clown-prince becomes interchangeable with the supposed leader of the free world, we really have reached a tipping point of sorts.