Dude, Where's That Elite? By BARBARA EHRENREICH:

Thus, last winter, the ultra-elite right-wing Club for Growth dismissed followers of Howard Dean as a "tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show." I've experienced it myself: speak up for the downtrodden, and someone is sure to accuse you of being a member of the class that's doing the trodding.

Well, to be fair, we don't usually do all those things at the same time -- except perhaps in a future Volvo commercial where I'll get something pierced while eating Shusi, etc., to show off Volvo's smooth ride.

Like that old diamond-cutting commercial.

1:30:21 PM    

Ok, what's with the blank posts appearing while using Radio's multi-author blogging tool?

10:45:55 AM    

Pauline Kael, quoted in the Salon piece, The gay attacks on Pauline Kael:

"A minor problem in trying to take 'Victim' seriously even as a thriller is that the suspense involves a series of 'revelations' that several of the highly-placed characters have been concealing their homosexuality; but actors, and especially English actors, generally look so queer anyway, that it's hard to be surprised at what we've always taken for granted -- in fact, in this suspense context of who is and who isn't, it's hard to believe in the actors who are supposed to be straight."

Pity the poor straight English actors.

And from Craig Seligman in the same piece (a gay friend and defender of Kael)

The gay attacks on Kael are obviously painful to me, and not just because, as a gay friend of hers, I feel injured by assaults on her good name. To me they represent something far more destructive. They embody the same hopeless script that progressives have enacted again and again for the past century. Why does the left persist in exhausting itself by attacking its allies instead of its enemies?

That hits home.

10:33:30 AM    

Palmer:

The gym isn't all about losing weight or being fit; it is a place to be in the right mind. It's a place to be steady and slow and quiet.

Oh, lord, Palmer, tell it to all the jumping boys in the Castro gyms.

Although, come to think of it, "slow, steady, and quiet" does describe how some of them stalk you.

9:57:52 AM