Letters to the Editor
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Not falling for it again
Last month I read letters saying that we should all stop feeding the troll and ignore Camille's musings. This month, I am sticking to it. My biggest grip against C.P. is that in 2000 she poisoned the well and made a very comfortable living bashing Democrats. She backed Ralph Nader. Bush became President and she conveniently disappeared for 6 years only to reappear during the lame duck phase of the Bush Presidency after the damage was done. Personally, I think she can crawl back under whatever rock she was hiding under for 6 years. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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Down Underachiever
Also, will the American elites be the last people on earth to learn that our most-read columnists are laughing at Al "I have a 10,000-square-foot, twenty-room, eight-bathroom, McMansion" Gore?
Ben Terpstra
Geelong, Australia
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Let's see what we have here. An Ann Coulter loving, global warming denying, right wing nutjob from Australia. Has this guy been playing football without a helmet? I guess if he's not worried about the drought and dying coral reefs, then we shouldn't either. When the Australian economy goes down the drain does it swirl counter-clockwise?
BTW Nobody give's a rat's ass what you imbeciles are laughing at. Most-read Australian columnist, isn't that an oxymoron? Or as Paul Bunyan once said, "My trust helper Blue reads Australian newspapers, but he's an oxymoron."
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hopefully the final chapter in the short-lived saga starring Pilot o' the Future and myself
I concede. You're awesome.
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SOS
Save Our Salon.
The perfect description of CP's work, lifted from this essay:
"...distorted language with self-important opacity and who inflated small ideas into giant, groaning bladder-bags."
There are plenty of good writers and deep thinkers out there.
Paglia is not one of them, and hasn't been for quite some time.
This is just sad, folks.
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Bipolar to full fledged psychotic
I was the one who asked Paglia about Jean Baudrillard; I simply couldn't resist. Gawd! I should've signed the letter John Smith. Better yet, I shouldn't have bothered posing the question in the first place.
Dear Salon, If you're bringing back Paglia you might as well complete the gag by bringing back Anne Lamott and David Horowitz too. Apart from her weird religianity, at least Lamott's politics are consistent with my own and she seems to have some claim to sanity, bless her little dread locks.
Hugs n' kisses
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Real Inconvenient Truths
Why is Paglia in such a snit about climate change?
It's a case of the inconvenience of reality.
She and other libertarians deeply fear a world where the marketplace can't resolve our problems. Moreover, she fears that her little perfect notion of individuation will have to be subjected to a little scrutiny.
Ecotropic Works
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I love Camille Paglia
She's just so controversial. I bet her partner is too. I bet they both had a hearty a laugh last night when Camille showed her what a controversial bit she planned to put up at Salon today. I bet Camille knew you'd all just poo yourselves when you saw her put Gore and the global warming hoax in its place, and laughed all the while she faxed it in. Take that liberal know-it-alls. Camille has had to take criticism from you bleeding hearst for years, and she's puttin' right back in your faces!
You go Cami!
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I really tried.
Salon, I really tried to give Paglia a chance. I did.
She's pretty useless. And you've upped my membership costs again. Why? To pay her by the word for the inanity that comes out of her column? Glenn Greenwald has twice the insight in half the space. I noticed, for a supposed "libertarian" and "non-conformist" she sure spent alot of time bashing big-L Liberals in her most recent column. Ohhh..big bad scary liberals.
No mention, however, of the Right's semi-implosion. No mention of the vitriol coming from their side. But it's Democrats' hatred of Bush that'll destroy our party? Maybe we hate Bush because we have a good reason to: IE that he's the worst President in modern history.
A simple refutation of Global Warming based on solar winds? How much evidence is required for Ms. Paglia to accept scientific fact? At this point, she'd question Newton's first law of motion if it wasn't five hundred years old.
I won't even get into the unabashed biasedness of this so called "independent". Taking letters from readers, and all of them happened to represent conservative viewpoints? ALL your readers just happened to believe only in the right's view on all of those things? EVEN THE GUY FROM AUSTRAILIA?
Please Salon, fill this space with something useful.
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I don't think the evidence for evolution is convincing either
I've really tried to give the woman the benefit of the doubt regarding her right wing hackery, (I really DO appreciate her taking on Dworkinism and authoritarian feminist prudery generally) but she aint makin it easy. In fact I'm about to give up, sadly.
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Can any of you even like read English words???
I mean, hellooooo. Paglia clearly explains that she is TOTALLY qualified to weigh in on the science of global warming:
"Geology and meteorology are fields that have always interested me and that I might well have entered, had I not been more attracted to art and culture. (My geology professor in college, in fact, asked me to consider geology as a career.)"
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come on
Dear Camille, I always enjoy reading your column - and usually agree with much of what you say - but when you post your thoughts on such serious topics as global warming i would hope you back up your arguments with some facts - you blast Ann Coulter for "carelessness of research and argumentation" but then seem to base your scientific expertise on the fact that you lived "at the foot of a drumlin" and once received compliment from a geology professor.
The fact that you couldn't even sit through Al Gore's movie should tip off a mind as sharp as yours that you might have some irrational bias against his position.
And can you possibly give me some rational for not following Gore's suggestions? more renuable energy? more efficient products? less disease causing pollution?
Even if you don't believe 100% in global warming, whats the harm in being more responsible in our behavior?
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Global warming
She brings up the subject and doesn't address the science.
That's not substantive. It's a disservice to the issue. It's also a waste of Salon space.
If you at Salon really want to tackle this, stage a debate online between Paglia and the climate scientists over at
http://www.realclimate.org/.
I'd be willing to bet, though, that Paglia doesn't have the appetite for a real fight - given that what she gave us was a bunch of lazy hocus pocus, really a bunch of nothing.
What about it, Paglia? Are you ready to stand your ground? Or are you just trying to be provocative? If so, what a waste of time.