If Camille Paglia's interview was replaced by a parody of a Camille Paglia interview, would there be any possible way to tell?

The Al Gore crack is beneath you. This "Gore says he invented the Internet" stuff has long been exposed as a media fabricaton. See http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html
and

http://www.sethf.com/gore/

and all over
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Camille Paglia's latest interview in Salon must be consumed in its entirety to appreciate the title of this post.

Sorry to disagree with you again, Dan, but I hardly see that it's necessary to read the whole damn thing to get the point.

If you had said "Long Winded Grandstanding Narcissism" I'd have to go along, but one only need a small sample to appreciate the grandstanding and the narcissism.

Jeez, anyone with half a brain (i.e. not Camille) knows that Jerry Pournelle had the first blog.

Still flogging that "Gore humor," eh, Dan? Let's just hope no one starts doing the same thing to you.

When two women decide to go at it, a wise man finds someplace else that he has a pressing engagement. Never get between two women who decide to throw down, I'd rather face a fascist dictator for breakfast and a terroist mastermind for dinner than do that.

Oldman: I'd rather face a fascist dictator for breakfast and a terroist mastermind for dinner than do that.

You'd be right at home at my place.

Cervantes,

The nature of your comment was unclear. Are you saying that you don't have such a problem, or that my solution would help me to fit in at your place, or maybe that the fascist dictator at breakfast and the terroist mastermind at dinner *are* the two women involved in a battle of wills? In my household growing up, my mother would have filled the former role and my sister the latter. It seems to be a problem I'm doomed to repeat since one of my moral faults is that I have this bad tendency to fall in love with more than one woman at once.

Perplexed,

The Oldman

Oldman: It was a bitter, bitter joke. (Does that help?)

Was just making fun of my own domestic situation, that's all. No complications of the kind you allude to. The "fascist dictator at breakfast" is the one I love and grow old with -- She Who Must Be Obeyed -- and the "terrorist mastermind at dinner" is the last of our sharper-than-a-serpent's-tooth spawn.

You'd said that rather than get in between two warring women, you'd rather face a dictator and a terrorist. I was just observing that this could easily be arranged.

All in all, a completely self-indulgent aside. Sorry to have raised your hopes up (if I did).

Agree or disagree this woman has refreshing, irritating and original ideas. I'd rather spend a month of Sundays hearing her eclectic,rambling take on current events than 30 seconds with Hannity , Charlie Rose or Bill Oreilly.

There are a lot of boastful, obnoxious posters in blog nation but if 1% of them brought the ranging intellect and scope that she brings blogging would be a lot more legimate form in my eyes.

I'd rather spend a month of Sundays hearing [CP's] eclectic, rambling take on current events than 30 seconds with Hannity, Charlie Rose or Bill Oreilly.

So would I -- but thankfully, those aren't the only alternatives.

Cervantes,

You seem a right sensible fellow, and I salute you for your trials. Women do get bossy or insistent sometimes don't they? Don't worry, you got plenty of company throughout the masculineverse in your troubles. Sounds like at least you are enjoying it, in a resigned sort of way at least. ;-)