{"id":578,"date":"2007-03-16T03:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T09:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/yet-again\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:05:32","slug":"yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paglia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/paglia\/2007\/03\/14\/coulter\/index1.html\">is right about Ann Coulter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coulter is a smart woman with formidable energy, and whether liberals like it or not, she is a high-profile feminist role model in her appetite for aggressive debate. But Coulter seems to be regressing rather than growing intellectually and sharpening her analytic skills. She evidently leaves no room in her life for study and reflection. I take books seriously (which is why I left the scene for five years to write &#8220;Break, Blow, Burn&#8221;) and thus hold against Coulter the part she has played in the debasement of that medium. Her books may rake in millions but won&#8217;t last because they are shoddily constructed. Coulter should be using her syndicated column for her topical opinions but her books for more considered contributions. &#8220;Godless,&#8221; for example, which intriguingly postulates the quasi-religiosity of contemporary liberalism, should have stimulated wide discussion but was so thrown together and full of holes that it was easy to dismiss and went unread outside her core audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coulter sometimes reminds me of William Shatner.<\/p>\n<p>No, bear with me here.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner started his career as a serious actor.\u00a0 Then came <em>Star Trek.<\/em>\u00a0 And after Strek, he gave in to camp.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter seems about the same; she can offer steak, but she seems to focus on sizzle.<\/p>\n<p>Trite, embarassing sizzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paglia is right about Ann Coulter: Coulter is a smart woman with formidable energy, and whether liberals like it or not, she is a high-profile feminist role model in her appetite for aggressive debate. But Coulter seems to be regressing rather than growing intellectually and sharpening her analytic skills. She evidently leaves no room in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}