Speaking of Amazons, couldn't the proportionally misrepresented LA Times op-ed wannabees championed recently by Professor Susan Estrich have found a less distasteful patron, given as she apparently is to accusing her opponents of brain damage?
Posted by Alan Allport at March 5, 2005 01:07 PMDon't suppose it bothers anyone here that no male public figure, however distastefully he behaved, would be described as "full of vim and vinegar"? That it's a phrase containing a condescending pat on the head for that feisty little lady in tennis shoes who dares to walk on her hind legs?
That said, I've little sympathy for Estrich. Far as I can tell she's the sort of Democrat who secretly yearns to be a Republican.
On the other hand Pat Sorrento, who was shop foreman of the Harvard Crimson in the 1970s, said Kinsley as an undergraduate was kind of an arrogant prick. Pat's favorite from that period was the polite, stuttering Tim Crouse, now famous for writing *The Boys On The Bus*.
Don't suppose it bothers anyone here that no male public figure, however distastefully he behaved, would be described as "full of vim and vinegar"?
Oh, do leave off.
Posted by: Alan Allport at March 5, 2005 02:04 PMOh, do leave off.
Ooh, getting feisty, I see. What a little spitfire he is!
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 5, 2005 05:39 PMI like to think of myself as more of a Hurricane.
Posted by: Alan Allport at March 5, 2005 07:02 PMIf I get to pick, can I be a Sopwith Camel? (Curse you, Red Baron!)
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 5, 2005 07:30 PM