For someone who talks incessantly about ivory tower limousine liberal bogeymen, Camille sure seems to share a lot of their supposed flaws; like, for instance, a disconnect from what's really happening in the world and its effects on people. How else to explain a person who decries a bill and champions the person who passed the "irresponsible", elderly-gutting piece of trash? I happen to support the bill, but if I thought it was so reckless and dishonest I probably wouldn't be so adulatory of its sponsor. Everything is theatre to Camille; nothing is real. If she had been around in the 40's she would have been enamored of the charismatic German with such reprehensible(but thought-provoking) ideas. No wonder she worships the sixties, a time when so much was promised and so little was achieved.

Sarah Palin's "celebrity" and her resume are not bolstered by the same things. Sarah Palin was surely more visible after her Couric meltdown, but it didn't make people rush to the polls to vote for her; it turned them off. Sarah Palin's approval ratings have fallen continuously since she's been in the spotlight.

Furthermore, there are other countries in which empty-headed celebrity politicians are more popular than they are here; Silvio Burlusconi and Putin are both quite popular, and both are ridiculously eccentric grandstanders; Putin recently released a tape of himself performing martial arts, and his people loved it. Whatever you have to say about America, we're not buying any tapes of Obama doing Tae-Bo.

This is the laziest kind of writing; the writer clearly had his thesis in mind and simply wrote what was necessary to support it, regardless of insignificances like poll numbers and other manifestations of Palin's demonstrable drop in popularity. Please put more thought into your columns in the future.

Paul Krugman didn't want the job and thinks Obama's picked an excellent economic cabinet. Obama has picked the kinds of people he told us he'd pick when he was running. These were the people he was surrounding himself with then, along with Volcker, the head of his economic council. And it was common knowledge he'd pick Gates for defense. If you thought "Change" meant something other than what you're seeing, maybe you're the one who's delusional, not the rest of the electorate. They picked him, not Kucinich.

Salon got rid of its Sex (Porn) section I have been having trouble drawing masturbatory fantasies from the site. THANK YOU SALON

Along with the front page article posted a couple of years ago about "Harvey Birdman's" "Foucaultian brilliance" and Wagner James Au's old French-inflected hagiographies of various video games, "I can has cheezburger... and pathos?" proves that nobody can parody Salon as well as Salon. This comes right on the heels of Camille Paglia's declaration that Sarah Palin "Uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist." Please post your embarrassments more stingily.