Comments on: Camille Would Simply Adore Fries With That!

By: Dr. Melissa Debbie ShitMoathier

Dr. Melissa Debbie ShitMoathier — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:18:12 +0000

“The gun-toting Sarah Palin is like Annie Oakley, a brash ambassador from America’s pioneer past”

Yes, that she most certainly is. And that is why we must return her thither forthwith, yea verily.

By: Dr. Melissa Debbie ShitMoathier

Dr. Melissa Debbie ShitMoathier — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:57:27 +0000

nonpareil

Nice to know that she’s really in touch with mainstream America. I hear that word all the time down at the local feedstore.

Yes, really. Last time I saw that word, it was on a jar of capers. (They were delectable!)

By: Cindy McCain

Cindy McCain — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:00:38 +0000

“And how exactly in the real world does some family’s income go up by 1000%? Where is this money coming from? Is it being shipped in from China?”

I inherited Daddy’s beer distributorship.

By: Gentlewoman

Gentlewoman — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:42:45 +0000

If the reason I gout the bump was because I managed to keep a bunch of employees just scraping by to a 2% or 3% cost of living increase – I don’t know if I could live with that.

Well, you could do what many of the more squeamish plutocrats do, and pay someone to tell you that it’s not true.

I am told that one can ease one’s conscience about a surprising number of things in this fashion. For more information, please contact your local church.

PS If I ever met Camille Paglia, I would dot her one, right on the nose. Right. On. The. Nose. If I go to jail, then I go to jail, but I don’t think I’ll go to jail because I am a frail white-haired lady who walks with a stick. Plus, I would introduce her ‘work’ as evidence; no jury would convict me. But even if they did, it would be totally worth it.

PPS I haven’t clicked on a Paglia link in years. Which is why her nose remains undotted. Nice virtual dottage by Burchill and Ivins, so there’s that. You hear me, Paglia? Right. On. The. Nose.

By: Zombie Nietzsche

Zombie Nietzsche — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:42 +0000

Or her other favorites Apollonian & Dionysian – blea!
I would like my half-baked metaphysics back, please.

By: SOB231

SOB231 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:16:29 +0000

Camille is the more manly version of Maureen Dowd. She’s her own circular firing squad. She rarely misses.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:36:25 +0000

But what of Palin’s pro-life stand? Creationism taught in schools? Book banning? Gay conversions? The Iraq war as God’s plan? Zionism as a prelude to the apocalypse? We’ll see how these big issues shake out.

The issues don’t matter, it’s whatever fantasies you can associate with the candidate.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:42:03 +0000

That article’s pushing 800 comments.

Sure, but how many of them consist of the single word…
PENIS

By: Percy ‘Mad Dog’ Plumflute

Percy ‘Mad Dog’ Plumflute — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:21:05 +0000

The most stunning thing about the excerpt from Paglia you offer is that its two consecutive sentences and in neither does she mention Madonna.

Or her other favorites Apollonian & Dionysian – blea!

Speaking of which, I just finished the otherwise decent “The Botany of Desire” by Michael Pollan, in which had the A and D words made their appearance on just about every page. The induced fog of Paglia-ism was incredibly distracting.

By: sagra

sagra — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:19:20 +0000

She shops at the mall?

LUXURY!

By: The Goddamn Batman

The Goddamn Batman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:17:59 +0000

One of the reasons I live in the Batcave under Stately Wayne Manor is that criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot, and therefore won’t enter. Also, if Camille Paglia happens to stumble in, the bats will eat her.

By: Auntie Claire's Hand

Auntie Claire's Hand — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:17:36 +0000

Why can’t these pundit types just quietly hate and debase themselves like ordinary people. Why do they have to make a spectacle of it? Everybody but them is getting sick of their stupid little game.

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:08:24 +0000

Wal-Mart’s bird seed sucks in the high 90s. And why this moron cow is still mooing after the job Molly Ivins did on her I will never understand…

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:54:32 +0000

I frequent fast-food restaurants, shop at the mall, and periodically visit Wal-Mart (its bird-seed section is nonpareil).

Yes. Designer bird seed is SOOOOOOOOOOO Middle American…

By: J Neo Marvin

J Neo Marvin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:46:14 +0000

Once again, Camille Paglia fails to make a convincing case for why anyone should give a good goddamn what Camille Paglia has to say.

By: Jrod

Jrod — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:28:37 +0000

When I was a kid, I had some friends who lived in an ancient Scottish castle that was moved to the top of a skyscraper in Manhattan!

No, wait. I think that was a cartoon, actually, but it’s still central to my point, which is HEARTLAND.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:14:39 +0000

That article’s pushing 800 comments.

By: phleabo

phleabo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:12:31 +0000

Hysterically funny.

Around the corner from the house I grew up in out on the Main Line was a villa/castle that the original owner had purchased in Spain and had brought over for him to live in. Exactly like everywhere in the American heartland, I’m sure.

By: thelogos

thelogos — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:36:49 +0000

Please everyone, for the love of humanity: Stop. Reading. Pagalia. It only encourages her to “write” and Joan is dumb enough to print it.

By: Jrod

Jrod — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:20:02 +0000

Sometimes I think this nation needs a giant meteor right in the middle.

Then I remember that all my stuff is there…