Why is Camille Paglia being given space by Salon (in 2007!)?Essentially every sentence in the thing is vacuous idiocy, of course, but this is particularly remarkable:Whatever his high ideals, Gore is a mass of frustrated yearnings and self-defeating vacillation. Raised in a bubble of wealth...
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Jim Clark, the thug who oversaw the racist gulag of Selma for more than a decade, went toe-up yesterday in an Alabama nursing home. Clark was best remembered for the.
Shorter Maureen Dowd: Al Gore is fat.
I don't really agree with the take of Garance and Ezra on Maureen Dowd's abjectly horrible column yesterday. The error they're making, I think, it to assume that these charges have some sort of objective merit to someone, or that there's some way of avoiding...
From Pulitzer Prize winner Maureen Dowd. Somerby has a history of the haircut wars, featuring the 'WaPo's own Pulitzer Prize-winning airhead Robin Givhan, and airhead who probably hasn't won a.
As a follow-up to my post about Al Gore allegedly "squandering" the 2000 campaign, I thought it would be useful to take a look at Frank Rich's analysis of the.
Somerby notes that Maureen Dowd that when it comes to obsessing about allegedly feminine Democrats, is essentially Coulter without the outright slurs:But then, why should pundits criticize Coulter when she describes Dem males as big “f*ggots?” It’s very similar to the gender-based “analysis” their dauphine,...
You know what's worse than giving op-ed space to people who write empty-headed fluff about things vaguely related to politics? Giving op-ed space to people who explain how they write.
Ben beat me to this, but indeed Sunday's Bobo was remarkably devoid of evidence and irrelevant even by the standards of his sociological thumbsuckers. Not only am I, shall we.
Finally the New York Times adds a strong (self-described) feminist voice to its op-ed pages:Similarly, Giuliani respects the distinctive work of judges and the separate role of the state legislatures. If Roe were overruled, those legislatures would decide how to regulate abortion. And decentralized legislation...
Scroll to the bottom of this column and weep. Do prominent op-ed pages need more women? Absolutely. Law professors? Why not. Conservative, even? Might be OK at the Times, although.