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Are Clinton's inept attack ads and faux-feminism enough? Can Obama learn to attack? Plus: American eroticism devolves to Barbie boobs and Botox.
  • Not bad. A first.

    This is actually the first Camille column that didn't make me gag. I think she's improving. Of course, one can't agree with everything. Rush Limbaugh always sticks to principles???? My God, a statement like that should nearly disqualify its writer from further consideration as a rational human. A strange blind spot, that.

    And isn't "tactical voting" a reasonable feature of other democratic systems that aren't like our two-party, winner-take-all slamfest? The necessity of forming coalitions among multiple parties in order to create a ruling majority has always required tactics, hasn't it? The U.S. form of democracy may be one of the dumbest, most limiting forms of all.

    True dat re: the current fetishized race of models and actresses, though. Peculiar. Makes you realize the advice given in "The Graduate" has finally come to pass. "Plastics," indeed.