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Obama's early stumbles

Readers ask, Camille dishes: On Democratic woes, the Weather Underground, Kanye West, Freud, alleged gay genes and "the long sleep."

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  • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 09:53 AM

    The Dark Knight

    Do I love to hate her, or do I just hate her?

    Did Paglia go to Yale because of merit, or did her parents write a check?

    Does Paglia hate herself, love being hated, or is it clinical?

    Is that cartoon a caricature, or is she really that ugly?

    The QUESTIONS! My God, the QUESTIONS.

    The bible is pretty impressive, considering how it was crapped out by "our wretched ancestors" to quote Freud.

    Sleep is a feature of life. OP: unconsciousness is a feature of the vehicle of consciousness. Death can't BE nothing, unless nothing IS. So death isn't like sleep at all. A better metaphor for death is ultimate wakefulness.

    No one is gay or straight. We all love people who embody the features of archetypal perfect parents (the phallic mother, if you will). People who claim to be either gay or straight are confining themselves according to normalizing pressures of the all-to-many (many of us)

    Global Warming is real (all the science is based on some pretty fucking simple principles) and methane gas is going to kill us all, as evidenced by the fact that it's totally happening, and the evidence for solar cycles is so scant, and the evidence for the contrary is so overwhelming, and we're still sitting around arguing about it because we are totally stewing in our own hatred to the point of political constipation. Guess what comes after that?

    Nice knowing you all.

    Try to have some good sex before you die. And love someone. And make a fool of yourself.

    -Lilian

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