Camille Paglia sucks
She denounces other people for being too strong... But it appears to me that she is just as much of a shock jock as Madonna or any of the other people she trashes in her Salon interview. I loved the way she beat everybody up for not respecting the Limbaugh and Hannity audiences, then went on practically in the next breath to insult all bloggers. She is the queen of ad hominem attacks. She doesn't have a lot to say that's substantive or constructive about anything. There is an excuse for bloggers to be sloppy or self-indulgent. The majority of us aren't pros and don't claim to be. But she is. She even has the egonerve to claim that she herself had the first blog and practically tries to take credit for the form, after trashing it. I'd like to call names, but that would make me no better than she is. (Don't worry, I'll get back to that sort of thing tomorrow.)
I can see the fires burning near Boulder from my window tonight. This afternoon when I went out for my walk, I wondered when we'd get our first one. It's been very hot and dry here for weeks. As I came around the corner into open space, I saw an enormous plume of smoke rising from the mountains and knew that today was the day. In fact three fires are burning here. Our fighters and equipment are in California! People I know are being evacuated tonight from their homes in the canyon just west of here. It's scary. The winds died down for a while earlier this evening, but now they're kicking up again something fierce.
7:27:55 PM 
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