Wait, Camille Paglia says, maybe this whole Obama thing was a mistake! And maybe Sarah Palin is the feminist icon of the 21st century!

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English — big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns — that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

_{Title stolen from The Onion.}

But I kinda love it and found it here:

(Sorry, couldn't get it to do it's flash thing on Slog, but if you click the link it's even more special.)

You mentioned in both your podcast and print column that you were disappointed with California voters "who voted for Obama, against the rights of same-sex couples." Who would that be, Dan? Perhaps a significant majority of black voters? Why single out Mormons (deservedly) for scorn, but not African Americans?

As a straight person who supports gay marriage and tolerance in general towards sexual minorities, I find it hard to fathom why gays wimp out over confronting one of the groups most hateful to them. Even I—again, a straight person—have been on the receiving end of awful homophobic behavior from blacks. I am not saying all blacks are homophobic, but if one can generalize about Mormons then one can do the same for African Americans.

I have seen a number of examples over the years of black and gay interests colliding and the gays always back down.—L.L.

Uh... gee. My freakin' head hurts. I'm going to get a beer now.

Barack to establish Office of Urban Policy:

According to ABC, Obama first presented the idea in June at a conference for mayors.

So, yes we need to fight poverty. Yes, we need to fight crime. Yes, we need to strengthen our cities. But we also need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution. Because strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions, and strong regions are essential for a strong America. That is the new metropolitan reality and we need a new strategy that reflects it – a strategy that’s about South Florida as much as Miami; that’s about Mesa and Scottsdale as much as Phoenix; that’s about Stamford and Northern New Jersey as much as New York City. As President, I’ll work with you to develop this kind of strategy and I’ll appoint the first White House Director of Urban Policy to help make it a reality...

And the music gets better

The smart-growth sustainability set is abuzz with excitement today over a new potential relationship in the Obama administration: Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, has examined the Obama administration's plan for cities and metropolitan areas and endorsed it, calling it "the real deal."