Interesting new layout for Salon.com, although I´m somewhat surprised that Ms. Paglia´s column is not listed under "Entertainment", as it should.

Camille Paglia is to female intellectuals what

Sarah Palin is to female politicians.

Sit down and discuss.

This time they have the advantage of incompetence on their side.

In regards to Roisin Murphy, I have to agree with you. I saw several of her videos recently and there is an uncanny, not so say suspicious similarity between LG and RM (I did purchase one of her old CDs, which are pretty good). Still, and even if Gaga's style is stolen, her music is pretty decent.

Gaga has worked very hard to get where she is (plus she is talented). Casati is more of a Paris Hilton type, silly.

This woman was apparently the richest heiress in Italy at some point in her early life. Really, it's easy being fabulous when you have the cash. I'm going with Gaga.

I do not watch Fox News, but all this attention given to Glenn Beck is starting to make me curious. That said, I wonder if spending (wasting?) so much "ink" discrediting him, is comparable to all the (failed) effort aimed at discrediting Sarah Palin. The people who follow GB are the same people who still somehow respect SP, and they do not follow Salon or other rational media.

Change the topic!!!

Today's headline on foxnews.com is a hidden camera video of, listen to this, a supposed pimp and a supposed prostitute (nicknamed "Kenya", seriously) obtaining advice from a couple of bad apples inside ACORN on how to cheat the IRS and how to obtain housing assistance to run a brothel for "Kenya" and 13 "very young" Salvadorean girls (illegal immigrants presumably?)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html

The GOP are exquisitely sleazy, but you gotta admit that they are disciplined in their malice.

that Gallant is the cartoon version of Glenny Beck?

Indeed. Just the most perfunctory exercise in vetting would've resulted in this man (with a likely problematic "radical left" background) being excluded from consideration (this was a high-profile czar position, no less). Now, the guy is forced to resign by Fox News nutjob Glenn Beck(!) on the eve of Obama's speeches to school children on education (which GOP extremists are depicting as an attempt at communist indoctrination) and to the nation on health care (another area Obama needs all the help he can conjure).

The word that comes to my mind: incompetence.

I think that the "violent" imagery/language being used (e.g. death panels) is simply an expression of the anti-Obama anger amongst the more hardcore right wingers, without explicitly threatening POTUS (although, as you probably know, some people have actually brought guns to the health care public forums).

Also, if health care reform fails, it would represent a major setback for Obama, so the wingnuts are going for the jugular (you see, another violent image).

Not to beat on a dead horse, but I suspect that in the alternate universe where Hillary won the election, she's giving Republicans hell (bipartisanship be damned!) in order to get health care reform passed.

Oh, well.

I just read your amusing post on ex-gays. Three words for you:

Once a 'mo...

I always felt that a true fag hag (and I apologize in advance to those self-admitted fag hags reading this) is a straight woman with heterosexual "issues" (rejection by straight men? mistreatment by them?) who seeks refuge in the company of harmless, friendly gay men.

Indeed, the shrill, overweight, none-too-attractive, unlucky-in-straight-love Margaret Cho is pretty much the embodiment of the fag hag, the way I perceive it (I must confess that I loved her first show, but I felt that she became repetitive and that she was pretty much turning her audience into her psychotherapist).

Just as the author concludes: I don't want a fag hag. I want a woman friend.

Obama's numbers are dropping even with the media still protecting him (Obama is a Big Media creation after all). For instance, what's the big news of the day today and that is receiving nearly as much coverage as the health care reform? The brand of beer to be served during the Gates visit, natch.

And, what ever happened with the TARP funds? Who's getting/gotten what? Are taxpayers still subsidizing (and taking most of the risk for) private purchases of toxic assets, as many feared?

Silence..........

OMG, look, it's Obama's puppy, let's take pictures, awwwwww!

MSNBC regularly features Arianna Huffington on its "Morning Joe" show. Recently, I witnessed an exchange between Mrs. Huffington and Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the show. The display of intellectuality was, mmm, extraordinary. It reminded of that movie with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, I forget the name.

That said, Arianna Huffington - unlike Matt Drudge, her conservative counterpart and who snipes at Democrats from the safety of his basement and under the protection of his security fedora - actually makes public appearances and posits her views before the public, in addition to allowing feedback from her readers in the form of her discussion forums and her fairly diverse blogs (even if the contents one finds at HuffPo, FluffPo I call it affectionately, are often less than paragons of journalistic diligence).

Also, I think Joe Scarborough is envious of Mika Brzezinski's sexy voice and overall hotness.

Seth MacFarlane is no longer funny. I actually helped bring him back on Fox (I bought the first three seasons on DVD), but these days Family Guy is all about shock for the sake of shock (kinky sex, bestiality, pedophilia, incest, etc) and the lazy, non-sequitur jokes fall consistently flat. The abortion episode, in particular, involves Meg going to prison, getting raped, getting pregnant as a result, and then getting an abortion, all for laughs. *sigh*

At this stage I kinda think it would've great if Seth MacFarlane's mother had had an abortion and spared us the vileness (and this guy is nominated for an Emmy, go figure).