Nailed it as always AND your are twice as interesting to read as Camilla. Salon needs to take stock and hire you.

When has Palin ever hit a book in her life, and why would she start now? Unless she's using the library for target practice...

A million thanks for seeing Sarah Palin's authenticity. Yep, she needs handlers -- er, make that just one: vous. Off topic I found a used copy of Sexual Personae recently and have the highest respect for your achievements. Reading it again after so many years redoubled my sense of optimism.

With the possible exception of Cary Tennis' column, this, maybe, could just be the most craptacular part of this site. But I'm just amazed at how many hits it gets every time, & the sheer number of responses, though mostly negative. But what if that's exactly what's perpetuating her stay here. What if, the next time she posted, we all could just resolve not to read it or comment on it. Maybe, even stay off Salon until the following week. I wonder if there's enough people who actually hate this column enough to send a message to whoever's in charge at Salon.

Only one way to find out...

PLEASE STOP POSTING THIS MORON. I'VE A PH.D. FROM AN IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY, I'M A TENURED PROFESSOR, I'VE PUBLISHED 5 BOOKS WITH MAJOR UNIVERSITY PRESSES, AND I SIMPLY WANT TO SAY SHE IS A TOTAL FRAUD. SHE ACCIDENTALLY BECAME CELEBRITY IN THE 1990S. NO REASON FOR SALON, SOMETIMES A PLACE OF SERIOUS DISCOURSE, TO SUPPORT THIS IDIOT.

IF I COULD HAVE POSTED THIS WITHOUT GOING TO THE ARTICLE ITSELF, I WOULD HAVE. PLEASE, SALON, PLEASE, STOP IT. SHE IS FULL OF CERTITUDE ABOUT NOTHING SHE HAS ANY, ANY KNOWLEDGE OF.

Yup.

I never read Camille's crap.

...before I had to hurl, and couldn't drag myself back to it. Heck, if I wanted to listen to Limbaugh I could just do so...

and Sarah Palin seriously.

We're so lucky Salon has provided such a remarkable intellect the opportunity to publish her "writing."

The Three Horsemen of Teh Stupid . . . hey Ms. Paglia . . . does it buuuuuurrrrrnnnnnn?

*Seriously though Ms. Paglia it appears you have some escalating mental health issues that need medical intervention in the very near future. I wish you a full and speedy recovery at the local high end booby hatch. I'm sure you have excellent health insurance to pay for it too.

**Dear Ms. Walsh,

Exactly how is this column valuable--as entertainment, as information (not), as a financial bone thrown to a someone you have personal affection for (I'm sure she's a real hoot at parties), . . . because as anything approaching reporting or insightful commentary it is so wanting and nonsensical that one has to really wonder why you provide her space to air out weird cogitations on shit nobody gives a flying flip about.

Ancient statues, lesbo porn, bullshit onesided questions about assassinating presidents (notice the questioner left out all the vile threats aimed at Clinton and the actual right wing assasination nuts at Palin rallies swinging Obama monkey stuffed animals, not to mention recent teabagger parties and the actual kooks who've already been arrested by the Secret Service with guns in the car), and the deep deep "religious significance" of Bono/U2 tunes. This is the best Salon has to offer?

Froomkin was on the market and you keep spaces available and the money flowing to these three nattering nitwitish nincompoops.

I was going to write some response here, but I thought better of it. I know I'm breaking my own advice right now, but I just wanted to suggest this one thing.

Let it go, people. Turn around and walk away. Just let this ugly thing that is the monthly Paglia spew lay down and die.

Reading such an absurdically, satirically awful and intellectually dishonest train of thought makes me feel better about my own writing.

I LOVE the letters this column gets. We are dooming ourselves to more Paglia by entertaining each other so vociferously after each one. Alas.

I'm sorry, but what the hell is this? Was Paglia just given four pages on Salon in order to answer reader letters (presumably sent in by readers, but , I mean, come on).

Best non-sequitur:

"As the product of Mediterranean wine culture, I follow the well-worn path of Dionysian liquor -- and let's not forget Near Eastern beer."

Palin cleaned Biden's clock??? Kindly clarify that for me. Were you under the impression the debate was actually some sort of winking contest?

Martin Gore wrote the lyrics to "Never Let Me Down Again," not Dave Gahan. And the song predates Gahan's heroin and suicidal phases anyway.

I'll defer to the rest of the peanut gallery on the other fallacies in evidence here.

She also needs a shrewder, cooler take on the mainstream media, with its preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags.

Palin's great advantage is that she is a preening bully, a witch, a twisted cynic, and a pompous windbag, naturally without any study. Of course she is ready for the national stage.

Right, because only Northeastern media elites expect clear thinking, basic literacy, self-composure and oratorical skill in our leaders. I mean, why else would an elected leader need to display those things?

Personally I find being murdered, coldly, for the little cash one may have in their pockets to be a greater offense than being murdered by someone who felt they had cause truly hate. However I think, and I could be wrong here, the purpose of federal hate crime laws is to provide an alternative avenue for justice in cases where frequently the focus of a hate crime, being a minority in the community where the crime took place, is potentially denied justice because the community may be prone to support the defendant as a member of the majority, rather than the plaintiff (victim, as it were) who by definition is hated.

It's pointless to complain to Salon about Camille Paglia. You're just feeding the troll. Ignore her incredibly dull act and she'll go away.