At the Keep A Child Alive fundraiser in NYC.

Also pictured: Alicia Keys and Padma Lakshmi.

I normally make a cottage industry of hating on Jessica Alba, but this photo of the Alba-Warren clan out in NYC this weekend warms my evil little heart.

Jessica Alba, Cash Warren and little Honor Marie all went out to lunch in LA on Sunday, creating a pap frenzy.

You know, some babies are really cute.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

But it’s really not that important to vote.

I’m sorry, but I find Declare Yourself’s new campaign, wherein assorted celebrities pose with ballgags and muzzles and fishhooks through their mouths, to be more disturbing than galvanizing. Jessica Alba’s shots are easily the most annoying. This is the most recent one released. Like, does she realize that you can’t win an Oscar for a PSA?

You guys should totally vote and stuff, because it’s important. And I hear a lot of people say, “Why would I vote? I don’t live in a swing state,” and, frankly, that’s a fair point. If you don’t live in a swing state, your singular vote’s unlikely to have much impact on the actual Presidential election. But keep in mind that there are lots and lots of other matters on the ballot. There’s probably at least one that’s not clearly going one way or another. It may be one that you feel is important. Personally, I also feel it’s important to vote out of respect for the people who fought and sacrificed so that we could have the right to vote — this hits home particularly hard for me as a woman.

But, like, if something comes up and you don’t make it to the polls, I really don’t feel it’s the equivalent of being bound and gagged. There are lots of other ways to make a difference in the world and to make your voice heard. I just find these tactics to be fear-based and obnoxious.

Oh, look, here’s Jessica Alba and her perfect stomach like twenty seconds after giving birth.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I’m just going to tell myself that she had a ton of liposuction, because it’s the only way I can go on living in a world of such gross genetic inequity.

Jessica Alba, Cash Warren and the little one go out to lunch in Hollywood.

Hey, she brought the rubber!

This is Jessica Alba’s new ad for Declare Yourself, an organization that encourages young people to vote.

“I think it is important for young people to be aware of the need we have in this country to get them more active politically,” she says. “People respond to things that are shocking.”

Oh, Jess, I know we all have our fantasies of what we’d do with you bound and gagged.

Me, personally?

I just want to put in a DVD of Honey and make you watch it all the way through. Then I’d take off the mouth gag and make you say “I declare myself incapable of choosing my own scripts” over and over again for half an hour. Then we’d repeat the process.

But seriously, you guys, get registered to vote. Next time it could be much worse. She could be talking.