She might live to be 140; and then you're in trouble.

Imagine what the Taliban are going to do to those women after they take over. They'll probably hunt each one of them down and kill them in some ghastly way to send their message to Afghan women that their days of having any rights whatsoever are over.

Dede is my new hero. She did exactly what I would have done, had I been in her position. Actually, I have done something similar. I was a world class salesperson before I retired. When there came a day that I realized that I wasn't appreciated by my employer, I left and went to work for competition. "Hell hath no fury,like a woman scorned"

I would consider returning to that as an upgrade. Perhaps it hasn't aged well. Very few works do.

We please to aim!

I've had to poke my eyes out seeing anything sexual about Paglia here... that's not right..

She will simply repeat sexual personae until she hits 140. We get it, Camille. You love you!

I love your column but I can't imagine a bigger waste of time than reading old tweets.

Does that mean Paglia will be limited to 5 tweets of 140 chars each?

Congrats! You got your point across in just 104 characters!

Soon Salon will have our Twitter streams alongside our blogs

Yes, because 140 characters is the best way to convey thoughtful commentary about the issues of the day.

Please don't

Please don't twit up this site. The redesign is bad enough (and it really is) without Twitter.

Please.

Don't.

-- ChefColeman

I've complained and complained via the proper channels. The redesign is so offputting that I come here only to see if sanity has returned and the old site has been restored. It's not as if the redesign made it easier to read and post letters. And having to look at Camille Paglia's name each time I access the site is incentive enough to further swear off.

With regard to Palin's "book" tour and in the immortal words of Dick Cheney "So?"

A book tour means nothing. Every two-bit author goes on a book tour. Good lord, even Ivana Trump went on a book tour and even Palin stood in line to see her. I can't think it means very much. However, since it makes you happy, go with it.

It all comes down to restricting women from making medical decisions for themselves with you idiots, doesn't it? Well, thank you very much but I would prefer to make my own life decisions without the interference of the government. Aren't you people supposed to be all about shrinking government and keeping it out of people's lives? This is why you and people who think like you are hypocrites. You want government out of people's lives as long as you can reserve the right to insert it into our bedrooms, doctor's offices, and be able to tell us who we can and cannot marry. In other words, you want the government involved in the most personal of all decisions we make in our lives.

Face it, Palin and her fellow-travelers Limbaugh, Beck, et al were soundly rejected yesterday in the one race that they chose to insert themselves. The candidates who rejected Palin's endorsement, and were scorned by her cheerleaders, won their races. Palin would do better to stay in the deep South and those pockets of the mid-West where stupidity is appreciated. The reality is that Palin and her Merry Men are divisive and that's not how you win elections. If you cannot compromise, you cannot win. This country was built on compromise and governing effectively is also done via compromise. Right now, that is the rethugs problem. They refuse to compromise. Scratch that - they refuse to even take part in the discussion except to lie and shout "No, no, no, no!"

For myself, I am pleased with some of President Obama's actions and I am not happy with some his actions so far, but then he's only been in office for 9 months. Of course, the last rethug administration managed to allow my city to be attacked and 3K of my fellow citizens die in less time than that. I have hope that the President will be able to accomplish some of his agenda and we will have to continue to keep pressure on him to right some of the wrongs he is continuing from the past administration. And this is where you rethugs and religious wingnuts get it wrong - President Obama is NOT a liberal by any stretch of the imagination. If he was, he would be getting higher marks from me than he does. He is a centrist. He ran as a centrist and he is governing as a centrist. But you can't see past the abortion issue, can you? So to you, he IS a liberal as is anyone who respects the rights of women over their own bodies.

You and Palin are becoming tiresome and I can only imagine that you will become more so as time goes on. People like Palin have an abbreviated shelf life. You trumpet her book tours and anti-choice appearances as a sign that she is broadening her appeal. You forget that the more exposure Palin recv'd on the campaign trail and up in AK, the higher her negatives went. What makes you think it will be any different this time? She's going to talk about her own life? Big deal. Perhaps she'll be more coherent on that subject than any others she's addressed but what if she's asked questions about her life that are uncomfortable or that the answers to will show her in a less than flattering light? What then? Is she going to say, as she did in the VP debate, that she's just not going to answer those questions? She has every right to do just that but it isn't going to win anyone over to her side.

Well, anyway, to paraphrase the great Dick Cheney once again, as far as I'm concerned - Palin can go fuck herself.