tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post6605867128172420332..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: A Hallucinatory CultPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-6553313587705371632009-01-21T08:18:00.000-08:002009-01-21T08:18:00.000-08:00Five gets you ten Paglia will morph into a full-bl...Five gets you ten Paglia will morph into a full-blown HIV denialist by two years from now. She's already a climate change and sexism denialist, and, as anyone who's paid attention has noticed, one form of crankery tends to lead to others. Someone on ScienceBlogs coined the lovely term "syncretin" to describe these folks.<BR/><BR/>That is to say, even if you <I>did</I> show her all kinds of strong evidence, she'd refuse to believe it anyway. (And what's the chances she can even <I>read</I> peer-reviewed climatology papers, huh? I have trouble with it, and I'm not a frothing dingbat.)Interrobanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073177798747299275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-37842390995098714872009-01-16T10:19:00.000-08:002009-01-16T10:19:00.000-08:00Here, she sets forth her sterling credentials as a...Here, she sets forth her sterling credentials as a person who refuses to listen to things she doesn't want to hear:<BR/><BR/>In the 1980s, I was...skeptical about media-trumpeted predictions about a world epidemic of heterosexual AIDS.<BR/><BR/>Once again, Phila, you are reading my mind, or I yours. Now I'm going to have to re-write something.<BR/><BR/>Paglia is a scab on the decadence of the corporate media. She'd be nothing in a country that wasn't run in the interest of keeping its alleged intellectual class from thinking. <BR/><BR/>Anthony McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-17694171660546880192009-01-15T18:18:00.000-08:002009-01-15T18:18:00.000-08:00Slavoj Žižek says that Camille Paglia is herself p...<I>Slavoj Žižek says that Camille Paglia is herself passing through a major cooling phase.</I><BR/><BR/>Maybe we could solve our energy problems by hooking generators to their jaws and locking 'em in a room together.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-41047828993961479632009-01-15T16:44:00.000-08:002009-01-15T16:44:00.000-08:00Slavoj Žižek says that Camille Paglia is herself p...Slavoj Žižek says that Camille Paglia is herself passing through a major cooling phase.P. Drānohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412231793647016993noreply@blogger.com