Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan

Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Fri Jun 1 12:22:52 PDT 2001


> if you're implying that this is another instance of a convo not suitable
> for suzy winecooler, well, for god's sake. i flipped on the tube today
> looking for the channel that has a view of the playground. happened upon
> Oxygen. heard about it, had never seen it, so sipped some java while
> listening to the blather. the socially constituted nature of fetishes and,
> indeed, all sexual practices was a topic of discussion. she used
> deterministic, as well. indeed, one of the guests said that same thing i
> did, only with hand gestures to indicate "the dialectic".
>
> heh.
>
> kelley

Well, partly; but I truly did not understand what you meant. Thanks for the clarification.

Oxygen is owned by Oprah. A form of socio-New-Age-speak peppered with colloquialisms ("Awesome!" "Sweet!") is its main vocab. And then there's Stephanie Miller, daughter of William (Goldwater's running mate in '64), who is still looking for her big comedy break.

DP



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