Letters to the Editor
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Not a High School Chestnut Just Bad High School Writing
I have to be serious but, "that old chestnut of a schoolyard insult" seems like the same thing as saying it was OK for her to use it, she just didn't use it on the right person. I know your trying to be witty (I guess), but think about what your saying....
That term may have been used in the 70's and whatever, but it's 2007. It's not an old chestnut. It's an insult pure and simple. Times do change and so do the meaning and intensity of words. Black people aren't still slaves, and gay people are working now on their own form of equality.
The kids in school now, have grown up with MTV, they've been exposed, and I can't think that calling it an old chestnut is doing anything more than condoning racial and other slurs, and continue to divide. It's not OK anymore to call Billy a fag or faggot in school. I repeat it is simply not an old chestnut. Somewhere along the way it stopped being and old chestnut, like the "N" word or Jews and the Holocaust.
I don't even know how to fix this, whatever it is. It's just bad writing, not very well thought out, full of assumptions, unbalanced, not funny, and apparently all about you.
"I detest Cheney" - I don't care, and when you say that it takes the F out of funny. You come off sounding like some mid 50's woman who, still loves her Birks and tie dye, and decided to write but never realized her generation has moved on.
I was born in 1970, and to me your "whatever this is" seems dated. Are you sure you shouldn't be writing for Reader's Digest. I bought a subscription to this online magazine because it was up-to-date in all senses. It's not that you're too old to write this column, its just that it appears you have not current understanding of what is funny these days. In other words, you're totally out of touch, and that's NOT, hot!
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I tried laughing too
I decided Ms. Paglia's forced, sarcastic chuckling is worth a try. I did it while reading her latest offering of uninsightful, rambling narcissism. It made me feel pathetic and mean - OH! Like Ms. Paglia.
Why doesn't Salon just go directly to a high school sophomore class to find someone to replace her?
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This is why Paglia has little credibility left
"""Her aping of a black Southern accent from the pulpit """
Read a little Camille, and you'll find out that she was QUOTING A SPIRITUAL. She wasn't "aping a southern" accent as you so FoxNewsily ape.
So you don't follow the news, don't really read anything of substance, and you get to write in Salon why? What are your credentials, other than being a serial idiot?
You know, to comment on the news, you have to know about the news. Start reading newspapers and blogs a little deeper, and stop watching Fox News so much, then we'll talk. Until then, you should really hold your tongue.
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Please Salon, make her stop
Wow, if I wanted to read regurgitated gossip that's already weeks old, I'd read a magazine. Why is this woman writing about politics for Salon?
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Paglia is always so interesting
God, she is so intelligent, so entertaining, so brilliant. I don't agree with everything she says but I'll be damned if I don't enjoy reading her. I coudn't imagine saying that about any other person in academia.
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Edwards?
Which Edwards are you leaning toward? The 2004 version that couldn't get it done against a weak field or the 2008 left wing panderer? What is Obama going to know in 2012 that he doesn't already know?
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Phony Hillary
Hillary's accent in Selma was just as phony as she is. It's about time people come to realize that she has no genuine political convictions and is just a follower and defiitely not a leader. This is evident by the way she follows Barbak around like a pit bull. Hillary is in the process of writing her political obituary. Kudos to Camille.
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Not front page material
Catty, feigned liberal-swatting and a bogus grip on intellectualism dogs this piece. Yeah, it's a fun read for, oh, say, 500 words, but this is too long and is like listening politely to someone else cackle on about how everyone but she is stupid.
And it doesn't deserve the front page.
Camille, get your own damned magazine, 'k? We're actually trying to extract from its deadly embrace a government based in the past - trying to rule the economic force of energy instead of forging ahead with innovation. We don't have time for you to play the smarter Coulter sister.
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Camille, Camille, Camille....
In the immortal words of George W. Bush...."who cares what you think!?"
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Camille's direct style appreciated
I'm a conservative who loves to read Camille. Not messing around, she gets right to her points in a no-nonsense way - and she always makes me consider her opinion without insulting my views, even though they're often different. As to the critical comments on the blog about her going to the pre-historic past for her cultural examples (i.e. Bette Davis) maybe it wouldn't hurt for some of these critics to know that there WAS actually a world of things happening before their entrance into this world.
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Camille Paglia
Every time I have given Paglia another chance, I am disappointed - in myself. What a pretentious, academic pseud she is!
The pointless (and self-referencing) detail into which her writing skips in no way enhances the shallowness of her world view.
To the extent which she poses as a "progressive", it is only as a prop for her academic pose. Or maybe it's not a pose, maybe she really is a pointless academic, straight out of Republican central casting.
Couldn't Salon use the bandwidth for something more useful and enlightening?
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Nerdnam
"So let's pay our taxes today for the war so that our children will not have to pay for our follies. Right now we're building up a huge deficit because we refuse to reverse Bush's tax giveaway to the rich."
Are you deft,
The US trade deficit narrowed 3.8 per cent in January to $59.1 billion thanks to record-breaking export growth, the Commerce Department said yesterday.http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070312-104258-2904r.htm
Sounds like it's improving, no thanks in part I'm sure to Bush's Tax Cuts.
"Great, when are you signing up? Hemingway and Orwell and other lefties had the balls to sign for the Spanish Civil War--where are the brave conservatives of today who are signing up for the Iraq war?"
I've already signed up, and am serving overseas now, protecting the rights of libs like you without, how'd you say it, "balls", are back in the states protesting our very existence, and if I'm not mistakened, Hemingway and Orwell, were still Americans, and believed in our country, and did not press defeatism on us, only immorality. And I can also say, all the people I serve with are not liberal, try coming over here and tell us that the war was a huuuge mistake and see the "kind and friendly" reaction you'd recieve, but then again, we're all too dumb and got stuck here huh?