Scott Lemieux noted the latest bit of drivel from Camille Paglia over on LGM. He, like me, is mystified that Salon thinks Paglia qualifies for inclusion on a site that would very much like you to pay for its content. As a measure of the good taste of LGM readers, his shorters verbatims caused gleeful piling on in the comments. Among those: a link from galnoir, pointing to a 1991 essay by the late, great Molly Ivins on Paglia.
For those who find monospace fonts unappealing (or who, like me, can never get enough Molly), I came across a PDF version* of the same piece, on an archive page* that offers a sampling of the work Molly originally published in Mother Jones.
* [Update 2009-03-11] The recent MoJo site redesign appears to have broken this link. Here's a version of the old page in the Wayback Machine. And here's an alternate link for the specific PDF file, if the one above won't open properly.
[Update 2010-06-28] Try also here: PDF.
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When some fellow feminist doesn't like my music (How could you not like "You are just another sticky wheel on the grocery cart of life"?), I have always felt free to say, in my politically correct feminist fashion, "Fuck
off."
An iconic demonstration of the perfection of Molly's prose. What a shame that GWB gets to live out his post-Presidency without her around to provide the definitive summary of his career.
I was thinking much the same thing -- this is a world of little justice that Molly Ivins is taken away and we are left with the opining of Camille Paglia. It's enough to make me want to believe in heaven.
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