dwg: "There was also a very creative post by GonDaddy, early in the thread, comparing CP to Oasis. Both started out kinda ok, way back when, then slowly sucked. It went on, and was inspired."

Sounds great. You don't happen to remember the page number? Paglia was always sort of a twit, but she was very fierce and some of her points were very refreshing in the face of the P.C. overreaching in the early 1990s. But that's all it was -- overreaching -- and not something rotten to the core, like Paglia painted it. Paglia was a good reality-check on the people who wanted to change "woman" to "womyn" (it's hard to believe many of them existed), but there was never much of a reality check on Paglia's side, and once she suggested that date-rape victims were partly to blame, she wasn't equipped to refine her comments. Instead she lapped up the brouhaha and became drunk with her celebrity, never really coming back down to earth. "Sexual Personae" was her only big hit...what else did she ever write that made an important impact?

If you have a chance there's a documentary out there about iconoclastic women (one of the other ones is Annie Sprinkle, doing a one-woman stage show in which she shows the audience her cervix), and it's very interesting to witness Paglia's home life and day-to-day existence. She's like a speed freak or something! She's wired differently than most people, and comes off as somebody who probably irritates everybody she comes into contact with. Anybody who'd put up with her for more than a little while would have to be a masochist or an utter saint. My guess is the iconoclasm works for her at getting attention, so she just keeps it up, balanced view of reality be damned.

I suppose we can all be glad she's given up on the global-warming-is-a-fraud position, now that it's no longer fashionable among the conservative readers she courts while pretending to be a libertarian Democrat.

Whew. Man, I am done talking about her for a while. One month till the next ejaculation of high-falutin' gobbledygook.

Anyway, this forum is supposed to be about Rush, but I'm done talking about him, too. I wonder what the band Rush thinks of the man Rush. For some reason I just thought of their song "Witch Hunt."

Bravo Joan, you just keep getting better.

Maybe Salon should post a "Health care reform for dummies" story (or series of stories) that are aimed at all the people who are criticizing and questioning things. There's a lot of misinformation and confusion out there, and I'm no exception -- I am finding it hard to keep up with everything without carefully reading the Washington Post and the NYT every morning.

....whatever you're smoking, pass it over.

Thanks. You can "track me down" anytime. The Susan Wood parody of Paglia on the page after mine is also terrific -- in fact it's much more creative and witty than mine. (Both are on page 30 and 31 of the Paglia letters, buried under the slew of Drudge-linked one-time posters.)

Wow, Susan, your parody of Paglia on page 31 was about 10 times better and funnier than my parody of Paglia on page 30!