Letters to the Editor
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Where is Molly Ivins when we really need her?
"Vast oceans of swill" just about sums it up. Four pages to spout gossip-column trivia about candidates and to tell us that she thinks Ann Coulter is a "smart woman?" Ann Coulter is smart in the same degree that Paglia is a scholar. Coulter is forty-very-something mutton dressed as lamb impersonating a grade-school bully. It takes no intelligence to spout mindless abuse, but Paglia has built her career doing much the same with a more pretentious vocabulary.
Of course, the world is just dying to know all about her fascinating trip to Camden and her epiphany that trucks going in and out of a warehouse epitomize the glorious achievements of patriarchal culture. Um, most people I know discovered a fascination with cars and trucks at the age of 18 months, and are not still congratulating themselves for their brilliant insight decades later.
Time for Bill Maher to award this woman his "get over yourself" prize.