Letters to the Editor
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Anybody else get past page two?
" . . . I believe character counts. Bush in my opinion is very honest, loyal, wise and walks with much integrity." Funny, I always picture him walking like the sasquatch in that grainy 8mm film footage that shows up on Discovery Channel every once in a while.
Sheesh, if the guy who wrote that didn't already exist (and it appears there are still a lot of 'em out there), we'd have to invent him . . . .
A good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that or I'd have sprayed my monitor.
Then we get to the intellectual dough-boy who has a "penchant for Klimt, taste for Miles Davis, and towering logic". I wonder if he builds ships in bottles when he's not letting Gawd sort out the folks he blows away with his M240 machine gun? "Stop-me-before-I-kill-again". Sorry, but's about as far as I could hack it. And the feedback? Right out of John Prine's "Dear Abby":
"You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood"
Like a previous poster wrote, bring on the Midol . . .
This silly, silly gripe followed up by a kind of Dear Abby reply.
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Q: What do Bush & Salon Have in Common?
A: They both stick tenaciously to their personal loyalties despite their constituent’s (or subscriber's ) condemnations.
Paglia is the Alberto Gonzales of this site. Joan, I respectfully think that makes you…Hmm?
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Readers?
If you believe those "letters" were written by "readers", I have some ocean front property out here in Montana to sell you.
Just call me at 1 800 FAKE Strawman.
Just when you think you've hit bottom with her . . .
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Gingrich or Paglia?
Did anyone else notice Paglia's description of Gingrich unwittingly describes herself as much as him?
...overall a depthless thinker, spewing out an endless stream of bright but disconnected "ideas" whose main function is to advertise [her] own putative brilliance...showy and narcissistic, with a smirky adolescent precocity.
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Klimpt and Bushit
I'm from MO originally (the Show-Me state; ie: BS not welcome) and have made my home in CO the past 21 years. People such as Camille epitomizes why I love the West. If that's not "I'm-above-it-all" writing, I don't know what is. Hey Camille, ever tried camping? (I think I know the answer.)
Anyway, to the evidence: "Yes, President Bush is unwavering in his policy. He proclaims it and sticks to it. ... In my view, the president has shown terrible judgment in choosing advisors (from the vice president on down), who have not served him well."
This president has chosen no one, except Dick Cheney. He chose Cheney to pick a VP, who found the appropriate candidate in the mirror. Then, what do you know? All the usual suspects emerge from criminal days gone by. (Sorry Rummy, you had to go.)
The Shrub only serves as cheerleader to Cheney's plan to rob every penny possible. There's that Corporate World Domination thing, too.
We've seen this before, back in the 1930s. But Snooty Cammy probably has a broader perspective, her being into art and all. And the parties. Oh, the parties!
"My penchant for Klimpt?" Who in the hell cares about Klimpt? Count me among the unwashed masses, CP, because I'm more interested in the world being on fire.
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Paglia vs. Gore
So Camille doesn't like Gore. What has she done that even begins to compare with his work in just the past two years? The man is valiantly fighting one of the two biggest fights faced by humanity (the other being the presence of lose nukes and other WMDs that stand a big chance of winding up in a terrorist's hands sooner or later).
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Common theme among reader responses
I read the first paragraph of the first letter and skimmed the rest. Finding the letter illogical, jingoistic, brainwashed, and generally unpalatable, I skipped to Paglia's response. I was hoping against hope for a coherent rebuttal, only to be left wondering exactly which planet it is that Paglia considers home. Yes, "terrorism" is a challenge for us, but the right-wing oversimplified approach has been a catastrophic failure.
I couldn't bring myself to read beyond Page 2. Either edit Paglia or quit running her bloggish ramblings and rantings. This is a good example of why I, like many other readers, am not renewing my Salon Premium subscription. I've been gravitating toward Slate a lot lately instead.
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I couldn't get past the letter at the beginning...
What's the point in reading beyond it?
When someone runs around screaming "The sky is RED! RED, damnit! And anyone who can't see that is a Commie Islamofascist Nazi!" they are beyond reason. No reply will suffice.
All I could do was try to pick my jaw up off the floor while vaguely comprehending that the writer was among those 30% of Americans that apparently believe Mr. Bush can do no wrong.
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You lost me at hello
Camille, Camille, Camille...
Why in the world would you bury your lead by going on and on and on. Is this some new kind of performance internet art? Are you taking a new kind of metabolism booster?
I actually wanted to respond to someone's view about Iraq, but I fear it'll get mixed up with letter about dieting.
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Something you may wish to take note of re: global warming
Dear Ms. Paglia:
In the letter which Mr. Innocenzo Iannuzzi wrote to you decrying global warming as a scientific myth, he stated that global temperatures will likely be cooler within five years than they are now.
And indeed, he may be right.
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies has a graph of mean annual temperatures for the whole planet, posted at this address:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20060925/
Interestingly enough, the graph shows very clearly that, at various points throughout this century, mean annual temperatures have fluctuated wildly so that the temperature at one point can be considerably lower than the same mean temperature at a point five years previous.
Unfortunately, when you look at all the means for all the years in a row, the pattern resembles a wildly jagged but ultimately ascending staircase. On the whole, for the past 20 years things have gotten hotter and hotter.
You may wish to take a look at it.
You may also wish to consider that the amount of H2O in our atmosphere has not dramatcally increased within the past half-century, while the amount of CO2 has. I would be most interested in learning from Mr. Iannuzzi if he has found any evidence to indicate that the amount of CO2 released naturally from the earth on an annual basis has changed in relation to the amount released through industrial processes.