One of my guilty pleasures is Lucianne Goldberg’s “Short Cuts” column. One of her short takes yesterday was about the imminent release of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir, which, God help me, I have already agreed to review. Over to Lucianne:
The book will be launched with one of the slickest publicity campaigns in publishing history. Of course, one news cycle after it is published any possible juice will be squeezed into a one page AP story. Newsday seems to have spent the weekend calling prominent women and getting them to speculate on the contents of “Living History.” The only gal who had anything fun to say was the redoubtable Camile Paglia who never, ever pulls a punch: “Anyone who stays married to an infantile, drooling, serial groper deserves what she gets.” Camile, we miss you.
Yes, indeed, we do.
EMAIL OF THE DAY: “What you identify as “Christo-fascism” was something Samuel Butler observed more than three hundred years ago in ‘Hudibras’:
‘… errant saints, whom all men grant
To be the true Church Militant;
Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text of pike and gun;
Decide all controversies by
Infallible artillery;
And prove their doctrines orthodox
By apostolick blows and knocks;
Call fire and sword and devastation,
A godly-thorough reformation…’
It was of course the dictatorship of Cromwell that Butler satirized. It is no coincidence that the radical and violent people who today profess to be acting in Christian causes are almost all “dispensationalist” Christians deriving their spiritual tradition from the Calvinist or Anabaptist strains of Protestantism.” You can say that again. More feedback on the Letters Page.
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