What the hell is Joan Walsh, Salon's editor, thinking of?

After what this country has been through in the last six plus years -- a disastrous abnegation of constitutional government, stolen elections, the institutionalization of a permanent state of war, being lied into a disastrous actual war, the self-neutering of an increasingly enfeebled, corporate press corps; unapologetic cronyism, the sale of government functions to the highest bidder, constant lying at the highest level of our government…well, one could go on and on…in the face of all that, why is Salon once again welcoming back to its virtual pages the ridiculously passe Camille Paglia, among whose fetid, fevered observations you will find no references to any of the above depredations of our national culture brought to us by the modern Republican Party.

Are we still in that same cultural moment, even after the 2006 elections, which requires of a liberal online magazine that it feel compelled to prove it's independence from some imaginary left-wing, politically correct ethos by publishing the work of a hack writer and a worse thinker, who has made a career of bitter, partisan attacks aimed exclusively at her natural allies? Do we really need a post-modern lesbian Joe Lieberman? Isn't Lieberman's joementum more than enough of such foolishness?

Apparently no.