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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
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10:53a - Camille Paglia is back, wank follows.
Props to the Wank Report mousies.
Over at Salon.com, infamous "feminist" Camille Paglia* makes her return after a six year hiatus. The second paragraph of her return column serves as a welcome mat to her fans or a warning sign to the haters, depending on your POV.
I had certainly assumed the Web was surfeited with more than enough material, but evidently many others beside myself find the partisan polarization of the blogosphere numbingly predictable and its prose too often slapdash, fragmentary or drearily prolix.
Um... What?
The Salon readers are, for the most part, going 1/3s "Yay, she's back" and 2/3s "OH HELL NO!"
For. Five. Hundred. Plus. Entries.
There are some choice potshots to be had, at Paglia herself, her haters, and a couple at Molly Irvins (whom one of the first posters referenced re: her appraisal of Paglia).
Internet commentary is serious bizness!
* Reader Rupert sums up Paglia's style thusly:
One third worthwhile insight, incisively articulated.
One third provocation for the hell of it (also worthwhile).
One third damn fool nonsense, delivered in the written-word equivalent of bombastic prog rock.
Stir up with equal parts narcissism and generosity.
Personally, I tend to think of her as the batshit liberal ying to Ann Coulter's batshit conservative yang.
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2:57p - Bad service in the ER?
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) traumawolfe posts a list of Rules of the ER in customers_suck. Complaints start at the first comment, where it is pointed out that s/he ripped off the list from another site. People also point out, at various points and in various ways, that some of the demands/complaints are irrational. Many personal anecdotes are invoked on both sides and I learn more about hemorrhoids than I wanted to.
Others defend the OP and there is discussion of exactly how bitchy a patient is allowed to be.
Eventually, the OP deletes her journal, but the post remains.
stella4809 makes an off-topic post over here and people complain there as well.
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