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sometimes i find myself agreeing with Pat Buchanan. it doesn't mean you're a bad person.

Posted by max solomon | April 9, 2008 3:45 PM
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Salon is still online? Why?

Posted by Peter F | April 9, 2008 3:52 PM
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The "brought it on himself" comment is a bit off. As I understood, Paglia was criticizing the confluence of factors that led to the killing: failure by the school to read the situation before it came to a head, a failure to confront the kid as he became "different" from his peers (and heading off the confrontation), and compulsory attendance requirements that forced the kid to be there.


Lets try to avoid boiling everything down to a soundbyte, mmkay?

Posted by Nick | April 9, 2008 3:53 PM
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#3: All of her advice was that he needed to stop acting gay or girlish.

He needed protection against his own fantasies -- or rather his own creative imagination, which should have been channeled into art rather than into acting out in real life.

How about protection from hate-murderers?

Posted by poppy* | April 9, 2008 4:05 PM
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You need to listen to Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song when discussing Camille Paglia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwG8WXYAHR0

No, I won't explain the reference.

Posted by JC | April 9, 2008 4:08 PM
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Paglia's hatred of Hilary is as pathological as ECB's sycophancy for her. Really, a lot of Paglia's writing is broken-record type stuff with some nuggets of truth buried within. Her reply to the LTC in Iraq was particularly concise. Salon must only continue to publish Paglia simply for the pageviews and attendant outraged letters. Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald is their true journalistic gem.

Posted by laterite | April 9, 2008 4:16 PM
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So is Paglia going to replace Dowd as your current e-stalking recipient?

Posted by tsm | April 9, 2008 4:19 PM
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OK, this is totally off-topic, but I received this mutual fund report in the mail and I thought, "Finally! A lesbian couple on the cover of an otherwise dull investment publication." Then I noticed it was a married man and woman. So, since when do good ol' boys in Mississippi start looking like us dykes??

Posted by rich dyke | April 9, 2008 4:32 PM
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Posted by you asked | April 9, 2008 4:38 PM
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Posted by max solomon | April 9, 2008 4:42 PM
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Geddy Lee belongs somewhere on that site.

Posted by laterite | April 9, 2008 4:43 PM
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yeah, Mark Pennis is a cream puff man ..... WTF?

Oh forgot, actual fax and stuff don't matter....

Posted by unPC | April 9, 2008 5:37 PM
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Camille Paglia rules !!

Posted by CripKev | April 9, 2008 5:51 PM
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@5 - Thank you!

CP just wants to be RP...

Posted by Soupytwist | April 9, 2008 5:55 PM
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What the hell happened to Paglia? Was she always like this and I just didn't notice, or is this a new crazy maybe caused by people paying her less attention than they used to?

Posted by Kiru Banzai | April 9, 2008 5:58 PM
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I forget, when did she go nuts - was it in 2002 or 2001?

Posted by Will in Seattle | April 9, 2008 6:06 PM
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I've never understood the "Hilary hates men" idea. I'd chalk it up to someone who hates Hilary, but has little creativity to employ.

She's still married to Bill Clinton ferrchissake, so she's obviously got a soft spot for male misdeeds, or at least enough tolerance to stay for reasons that benefit her. Either way, it's a long way from hatred.

Posted by Dougsf | April 9, 2008 6:33 PM
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Camille Paglia is the Ur-Troll. She's been pulling this shit since the 80s and 90s, when she used to stalk gay & lesbian studies conferences and trying to provoke teh gays. I was there. She's a fucking loon. She hasn't changed one bit.

Zaftig then, zaftig now. She craves your attention and will say anything to get it.

Suckahs.

Posted by MichaelPgh | April 9, 2008 6:47 PM
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Is Michelle Obama fierce though?

Posted by it's ME | April 9, 2008 7:56 PM
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I don't know if Camille Paglia has always been insane, but she certainly is these days.

Posted by Gabriel | April 10, 2008 10:03 AM
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Paglia cuts through liberal PC crap and proves herself to be the real liberal.

Posted by Jeff | April 10, 2008 10:31 AM
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Paglia?Isn't she the nutter who wrote a book about rape being natural or some horseshit?

Posted by resident_alien | April 10, 2008 12:13 PM
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Resident Alien - What on earth are you talking about? I guess you haven't read a word of what she has said but listen to other biased opinions about Camille. C'mon, it's not hard. Go to the library and get her books and have a read for yourself.
If you're not prepared to do that then go and get a job at FOX. 'Accuracy' is a foreign word over there I believe.

Posted by Michael M | April 14, 2008 4:12 PM

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