Heidi Julavits
from: Flannery Dean
Neal,
Thank you for feeling as contemptuous of the opinions expressed by Heidi Julavits in today's Salon circle jerk (is this going to become a regular feature of the site? A daily poll of patronizing reactionaries?) as I did. She and her "Italian friend" are silly people and I hope they realize it before they go a-knockin' on the doors of the immoral, brain dead mob they confidently consider themselves above. Heidi Julavits likes to play teacher in her essays but like all bad teachers she offers little in the way of instruction or contradiction. She's a scold and a drip and it is infuriating to read her thoughts on any subject. Lower your petticoat, Heidi; now's not the time for your tears.
I felt sick when George W. was re-elected (and I am Canadian!), not only because I feel he is unfit to lead but because it seemed to me that it revealed how truly terrified Americans are of the world they find themselves in. Too scared to vote for Kerry, too scared not to vote for George Bush seems like a more apt analysis of the situation than "medieval". I don't think it would hurt Salon writers to mingle with the other half of the voting population--you know the people who don't work at Salon?--not as earnest advocates for moral change but as equally flawed human beings
looking for a way through the shitstorm.