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To extend Ms. O'Donnell's point, I once worked at a psych hospital and a former child star was admitted. He was thickened and wrinkled by time, but not mentally matured. He vied for attention in the old childish ways and probably wondered, as he'd been wondering for decades, why the old tricks didn't turn heads anymore. One reluctantly imagines Jim Carrey trying to provoke laughter in 40 years by having his butt "talk" and that's Paglia's problem. She's become a talking ass by not evolving. Her shtick, which once turned heads, now only has Bush voters turning their attention to her.
