Letters to the Editor
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So much for equality
Wait. Paglia actually, really, truly wrote:
"With its acrid hormonal smells, brisk traffic and mundane ritual of furtive self-touch, the men's john stimulates gay lust -- while the ladies' room is just another place to jabber and powder your nose!"
WTF? Camille Pagila has become a staid, dim, cliche-ridden Archie Bunker?
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Who is this Paglia idiot?
1) Re: Global Warming: Yes, there may be other causes than ONLY human consumption CONTRIBUTING to global warming, but it is NOT an either or thing. Put it another way, what is the down side of assuming humans are contributing to a natural cycle, then try to modify the human contribution? A few bucks? Sorry, but I am not one of these "Every penny spent must be for something that is 100% proven" guys. That is what the cigarette people got away with for decades, to the detriment of society at large.
2) Clinton, lies about sex. Bush, lies about a war. Lies are lies. Cheez, no sense of proportion.
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What does Camille know about the Military or Military Strategy?
Why are we listening to this thing ooze?
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Lesbian(s) gone bad...
To compare Bill Clinton's penile "issues" to the monstrosity of Bush's endless crimes is infantile and dispositive of the question of whether anyone should pay any attention whatsoever to your political analysis. Your issues with Hillary are both manifest and boring--get over it: she's not a dyke. Why Salon gives you any space whatsoever is beyond me--your insistent self-referential and self-reverential commentary wouldn't hack it in a sub-Smithy college giveaway.
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a long, sulfurous night of the walking dead
Has Camille looked in the mirror again?
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Diane Feinstein?
How in the world does Diane Feinstein? rate the status of stellar performing Senator? I have the misfortune of being from her state, and have seen her performance close at hand. For starters, not only did she vote for the Iraq war resolution, she even acknowledged at the time that her constituants (ie: people who voted for her) were solidly against it! God help us all should we have elected officials do what the people who voted for them want. Especially since we were right. Also, she lead the fight in the senate to confirm Condelezza Rice as Seceratary of State, even though we then knew that Dr. Rice was a huge Bush W. enabler, telling has many lies has she had to so that her boss could have his war.
Sorry, you've got it all wrong, Barbara Boxer is our steller performer in California, not Feinstein.
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The simplest facts about geology seem to be missing from the mental equipment of many highly educated people these days
I'm sorry, I missed when Camille earned her Ph.D in geology and atmospheric sciences.
Perhaps Joan Walsh, you should print all of Camille's degrees and her peer reviewed articles so we can all better appreciate her wisdom.
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Wow, Camille Paglia LITERALLY demonstrates the intellectual honesty of a Jim Morrison groupie.
Michael says, I was interested to see you claim in your Salon column to be a supporter of multiculturalism and was wondering if you could say more about what you mean by "multiculturalism.
Camille says, This is a delightful skewering of p.c. pretensions! Multiculturalism has become politicized in Great Britain and to a lesser extent Canada. But I can speak only from my own experience: Multiculturalism is an academic shibboleth to which many give lip service but which few honestly try to follow
Jim Morrison says, "I am a Sagittariuses, the most philosophical of all the signs!"
A groupie yells out, "So am I! So am I"
Jim Morrison says, "but I don't believe in that bullshit."
Same groupie yells out, "Neither do I! Neither do I!"
Thanks Camille, you're old and yet still don't have the courage to be honest.
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Barak Obama is a phony
Camille,
I can't believe you still call yourself a democrat.
You can be as liberal as you want, but a democrat .
Democrats today do not think, they do not understand common decency, and they do not understand the common man, whom they claim to represent.
Also, Obama is a certified fraud, who couldn't lead a thinking starving man or woman to a ham sandwich.
If by some disaster he should be elected, just watch how fast he falls in step with the elitists of his party and watch him forget anything he ever said about change.
This man is on an ego trip the likes of which you will not see again for years.
The Democrat Party is a sham and doesn't posses anything of what that party once exhibited.
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Camille is a big hypocrite., what else is new?
I remember her carping on feminists for years: listen to science, gender studies should be based on science. Science, science, science.
But it's not liberals who are originating these warnings about global warming. These are professional scientists. And who is Camille Paglia to tell any professional scientist that a computer climate model is wrong?
Camille believes in science when she can use science to shame feminists. But when the scientists go against Camille's own politics, suddenly science isn't right any more and and we need to stop listening to scientists.
People like this really piss me off.
Science isn't perfect, but the people who do it for a living know what they're doing.
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The Myth of Altruism
In your column, "The paranoid withdrawal fantasy," you include the following paragraph:
"As for the Democratic Party's governing committee or the combative, impudent left-liberal activist groups, they are just as committed to their altruistic vision of a future America as are conservatives, who base their values on tradition and faith. Both sides deserve respect."
As a student of the English language, don't you feel the least little trace of irony in referring to the redistribution of wealth as "altruism?"
The dictionary definition of "altruism" is: "Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness." What does selflessness have to do with the expropriation of wealth from those "more fortunate" for the benefit of those "less fortunate?"
If the left-Liberal groups were advocating giving up their own wealth, I would have no quibble, but "Altruism" (the forced imposition of altruism on the subjects of a State), has nothing to do with "altruism," in its true form. In fact, it is arguably the opposite.
Isn't it time we bring the true nature of our politics to the forefront, and stop calling them by names that are all connotation, and no denotation?
And while we're on an honesty kick, why not lay bare the true nature of the meaning of "tradition" and "faith?"
I question how much "respect" either of these world views deserves.