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The former Salon columnist talks straight about being attacked by readers, why she's not crazy about Hillary, her wonderful week with Molly Ivins, and what a drag it is getting old.
  • Concerning the lack of civility here

    and other places in the blogosphere, when social constraints are loosed (the left is famous for, if nothing else, discarding social constraint), people act like drunks. Loud, bellicose, and profane. The greater the lack of constraint, the greater the tendency to act like an animal, utterly disregarding the effect on others and themselves. The drunk cares only about himself. His opinion reigns supreme. Likewise the amoral, licentious hedonist.

    Welcome to the world the 60's made. Anne Lamott started the fire, and now she running from it, afraid of and repulsed by her own creation. Anne, the fire is still burning.