A CELEBRITY: WHO CARES? May 22, 2008
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Now I have not heard of this person, which is not surprising because I generally do not watch television or keep track of such matters. My take is that celebrity status, for any person and particularly a female one, is a form of abuse, however lucrative it may be. Germaine Greer would be better off, and she is now seventy years of age, if she had never been a celebrity, and instead of what she should have regarded as a respected and gifted individual.
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RUN CLINTON RUN May 22, 2008
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As expected, Clinton won comprehensively in Kentucky in what might be described as one horse race (enough of the puns already), and Obama more significantly and more impressively won Oregon. Obama’s win in Oregon came as no surprise after he had addressed a crowd of 75,000 in Portland, where 15,000 people had been turned away. Clinton’s success followed the patterns set previously in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Just why poorer, less educated people support her remains a mystery to me, except in resignation and hopelessness.
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