This woman obviously has love only for herself, as anyone who would insist that if it serves their 'art' it is all grist for the mill. Bullshit. Who decides if your art is important you enough or worthy enough to destroy the people it is built upon? You?

Anyone with such a high opinion of him/herself deserves to spend their dying days with only that individual they love so dearly, their pathetic selves.

Julia Myerson, you are going to die alone and unloved.

I hope that tortures you to madness. What you did to your children certainly has.

"[C]rude, ahistorical distortions of a movie like Tarantino's 'can obscure the events' true significance.'"

Kinda reminds me of the Perry Bible Fellowship comic:

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I really wouldn't buy the idea that depicting Jews as bloodthirsty revenge-seekers should be worried about in the cartoony bashing of Nazi brains any more than it was with Spielberg's hauntingly realistic "Munich," and that, we must remember, was given to us by the creator of Schindler's List - the filmmaking equivalent of Elie Wiesel and "Night."

So we should or should not be ashamed to be carrying around gargantuan surpluses as the average American is the number one consumer of food resources. In a country so proud to have the freedom to consume everything with a slab of bacon to wash it down, a little shame at the physiological result might be a good thing.

Maybe worrying a little more about cankles, muffin tops or man ta-tas could be the first step toward getting the terminally narcissistic populace to stop digging their graves with their knives and forks.

"Freedom of speech" does not come into play. She doens't own Salon, and as far as I can tell Salon owes her nothing. It would not be a violation of the right to freedom of speech to can her.

Though it would be extremely distasteful, especially for a "liberal" outlet like Salon.

Though I'm sure if you baited them without doing a whole lot of work at it, you could get most of the anti-Camille brownshirts on here to betray the ideal of freedom of speech.

I'm certain a sizable chunk of folk on here do support the fairness doctrine.

Though I am a converted conservative, I still do think that the term liberal is completely misused by self titled "libearls" in this country.

"Disciplined minds...."

Wow. You really don't have any idea how you sound, do you?

Thanks for proving Camille's point about the intellectual bullying and lockstep thuggery that has come to define liberalism in America.

I feel so much better about reading her columns after reading the replies to them.

Hope you enjoy your Republican backlash in '12.

Personally, I intuitively believe you are probably correct in this assumption. I do want to know though (yeah, yeah, too lazy to Google) what studies have been done on this phenomenon? Where does the assertion that extreme homophobics are a case of "methinks he doth protest too much"?

At the risk of ruining some of the magic of yet another beautiful piece by GK, I'll say that the mindset exemplified here is the reason I have long identified as a Republican until very recently.

I never understood the anger over our "culture war." I pretty much saw it as the snooty over-educated trying to infect every undisturbed corner of the country with federal this-and-that vs. people like those in Abilene TX. I was in love with the idea of an America where anyone's reasonable idea of "freedom" exists somewhere on this vast portion of the continent and within one of the fifty greater governmental bodies in it. I shunned anything that reeked of homogeneity and held states' rights sacred not in the old codeword for racism sense, but the idea that a place like New York and Texas can live happily under the same flag, but have to surrender nothing of what makes them special.

Unfortunately being a Republican for reasons like this anymore makes about as much sense as buying an iPod for peace. It just doesn't work that way.

When the party that flew under the banner of a federal government learning to say "no" to itself after years of gluttony, has racked up the largest debt in the history of the country even when you don't count military expenditure, something is wrong. When the federal government reaches into more sacred corners of life than ever before (the schoolhouse, the bedroom, your mail, your internet porn), someone wasn't doing the job they were hired to do.

People who believe the things the Texans in this story believe aren't big angry bigots. They voted for the party that promised over a decade ago to leave their way of life undisturbed as should be simply expected from an American federal government. Unfortunately that promise simply wasn't kept to any of us. If they hold on to their flagship party's banner, especially after having a president who was so flamboyantly one of their own, I won't hold it against them. I just hope they don't become a silly living historical curiosity voting for Republicans out of a belief in small government and the sanctity of states rights. If they do, they will look as ridiculous as an old woman I used to know who voted Democrat because she thought they were the Klan's own.

I've always thought that giving your ass a few swipes with a piece of tissue paper wasn't the best way to clean the dirtiest part of the body. You brush your teeth after eating, wash your pits after playing, and probably soak yourself in Purell if you get grease or dirt on any part of your body. But just a quick wipe with paper after toxic sludge comes out of a recessed messy hole? Why?

I think I will give those Charmin wipes a try, as it will be likely quite a while before I get a place with a bidet.