Jackson Jambalaya

Rush has to be laughing himself silly over this......the exposure he's getting is priceless. He'll have lots of new listeners.....

Camile Paglia takes on the amateurs. Read the 2nd half of the first page for the rest.

Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama's first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection.

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Though every novice administration makes blunders and bloopers, its modus operandi should not be a conspiratorial reflex cynicism.

Case in point: The orchestrated attack on radio host Rush Limbaugh, which has made the White House look like an oafish bunch of drunken frat boys. I returned from carnival in Brazil (more on that shortly) to find the Limbaugh affair in full flower. Has the administration gone mad? This entire fracas was set off by the president himself, who lowered his office by targeting a private citizen by name. Limbaugh had every right to counterattack, which he did with gusto. Why have so many Democrats abandoned the hallowed principle of free speech? Limbaugh, like our own liberal culture hero Lenny Bruce, is a professional commentator who can be as rude and crude as he wants.

Yup. They screwed up doing this. Steele of course stepped on it but most of the people bashing Rush would bash him no matter what.

Of course he is polarizing. Those who take strong positions in a public manner tend to do so, regardless of politics. Because they are so sure of themselves and their ideas, many people are threatened by that. No one is engraged by a Trent Lott or Mary Landrieu, it takes a Bill Clinton or Rush Limbaugh to arouse those feelings.

Read Camille last night. I love her writing even when I disagree with her.

Funny how all these women's study courses don't include her and Ayn Rand.

Actually, a lot of women's studies courses include Paglia. Sexual Personae is pretty widely read in WS circles. Ayn Rand is a different matter because she had very little to say about gender.

btw Democrats and Republicans do exactly the same thing on this front. At least Democrats didn't make a movie just to bash Rush Limbaugh, as Republicans did with An American Carol vis-a-vis Michael Moore.

Like Moore is anywhere near Limbaugh's equivalence.

I looked at the tables of contents used in leading women's lit anthologies today for college courses. Neither author was mentioned in them.

Paglia isn't one of the most prominent WS writers--she's mainly pop--but she does get read. Thing is that what she writes about gender doesn't make much sense if you haven't read Foucault, because Sexual Personae is basically intended to be a rebuttal to his work. For undergrads, excerpts from Vamps & Tramps are more common.

Rand didn't write about gender much at all, and what she did have to say was pedestrian, so there's no good reason why she would be in a WS anthology.

If you want to read some great WS, check out Martha Nussbaum. Arguably the most underrated philosopher of the past 50 years and she's still going strong.