Camille Paglia and Dennis Miller each board a train leaving from Boston at nine thirty. Paglia intends to travel seventy miles; Miller intends to travel one hundred and ten. If the train leaves the station ten minutes late, at what point do all the rest of the passengers throw themselves out the window and on to the tracks in order to avoid even one more second of self-impressed pseudo-academic blather from two washed up relics from the nineteen eighties/early nineties?

Where AM I? Who IS this woman?

Oh. OK. Its her again.

Nevermind I just woke up.

Another note: two Roman Emperors (Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius) were criticized by the public for catching up on their correspondence during games. I wonder that CP missed that.

Deschanel said, January 11, 2008 at 19:09

A commenter on another blog made an interesting observation about Paglia and Andrew Sullivan. Both rose to prominence in the 90’s as, respectively, a gay man critical of other gays, and a feminist critical of other feminists. They were wildly rewarded by the media for basically, trashing their own kind.

Hiring the natives to trash the natives is an old, old pattern, and it’s why the natives who favor the powerful are so highly rewarded.

I wish my ex had shown me this kind of contempt, rather than take half my marital assets and 17% of my paycheck for the past six years.

Anyone have a boxcutter? I’d like to expand my house to include a sunporch.

I’ll ask my co-worker.

What I am noticing is that it’s not just the media portraying Mrs. Clinton this way. A co-worker was watching a video yesterday. This video started with “WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE IF HILLARY WINS” on the screen. Cut to this guy getting kicked in the balls by a woman in a sort of professional looking dress. End of video.

It is wierd to me that this strikes such a chord with people, but obviously it does. I think the third-rate rodeo clowns who run our media do make it worse, though.

Hillary’s attackers can’t seem to avoid shooting themselves in the foot. No wonder people from Matthews to Modo to Paglia are so intimidated by Hillary’s success. The more they fight her, the better she does and the crazier the detractors look.

It makes me think that a Hillary presidency would not be the affirmation of the status quo alot of people assume it would be. She might just be the right combination of character traits to just drive the right completely berserk in a way that permanently discredits them – FINALLY.