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All hail Automotive Eroticism's sensational April issue!
Memo to cringing, post-Circe academic pigs: Stop slobbering shamelessly on lollipops shaped like Michel Foucault's bald head!

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By Camille Paglia

April 1, 2000 |   Another week, and another tedious gallimaufry of media malfeasance. Those pansy poltroons are still stuck like barnacles to John McCain's bony butt, while they dopily let the crushing imperative of a female veep for both parties slip, slip, slip away like a greased pig. Sniveling, pasty-faced grubs! Mush-brained lemming losers!

Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, like Lucille Ball with head wrapped and skirt hiked up at the Italian vineyard, is feverishly stomping the gooey grapes of wrath and hoping to turn race war, her only playable card, into victory at the polls. Hey, Mr. DJ, crank up the tarantella for that gal with the purple knee socks!





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Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who keeps fumbling for the golden key to the cooing, liberal rhetoric demanded in our hand-holding time, is weighing other career options, especially after his stunning success at the just-opened Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition. Visitors have been flocking to see Giuliani's multimedia installation, "Titillation" -- a Plexiglas colossus of the nude Eleanor Roosevelt mounted on a pedestal of mummifed severed penises.

Rancid ricotta dripping from the twin cannoli affixed to Eleanor's bosom symbolizes (according to the Whitney's audiotape) the milk-and-kindness of the now-sour New Deal, while the fountain of marinara sauce flooding down her thunder thighs (which viewers are encouraged to quaff via paper cups) signifies the sufferings of humanity that Democrats claim only they can see and relieve.

Naomi Wolf returned to the scene this week with her emotional confession at a press conference on Riker's Island that she has finally found the ultimate alpha male of American culture -- Rush Limbaugh. Never before, she wept, has she experienced the erotic transports afforded her by being imperially sat on by Limbaugh during his controversial radio show. "Masochism is the Fourth Wave of feminism!" Wolf fervently declared.

Wolf denied rumors that Limbaugh has had to curb her infatuation by limiting her cushion services to 1:05 to 1:35 p.m. each day and that EIB Network producers must regularly drag her kicking and screaming into the street, where she is slapped back to her senses by her anemic-blond Ivy League chum Karenna Gore. But Wolf did confirm she has commissioned look-alike Monica Lewinsky to create an earth-tone, plush-velvet handbag, doily and towel set embroidered with Limbaugh's monogram in the classic White House Bordello hue, "Impeachment Pink."

Salon reader Fred Ubermensch sends a query from Evanston, Ill.:

Last week, my niece was kidnapped by Afghan rebels and sold into white slavery to crime bosses in Bangkok. Should we be concerned?

Certainly not! The prostitute is the cosmic symbol of sexual freedom. Your niece will be doing heaven's work in service to the tempestuously pumping male principle. See the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the seventh section in the third chapter of my second book.

Sigmund Jung writes from Arlington, Va.:

Does Michael Kinsley have a sex life? If so, what is it?

Alas, there are some questions so inkily profound that even the oracle must fall silent before them.

Alice C. Dodgson sends this impassioned screed from Berkeley, Calif.:

As a marine biologist specializing in spiny urchins, I just can't figure out what's going on with the humanities professors at my university. They shuffle into faculty meetings like clones and sit there noisily slobbering on lollipops shaped like Michel Foucault's bald head.

No one can understand a word they say except when they stop their sucking long enough to chant in unison, "There is no god but Foucault, and Said is his prophet!" It's so boring -- and also unsanitary. What should we do about this?

Perhaps a mass mailing of sample-size cayenne-flavored K-Y tubes to the Literature and Cultural Studies faculties might jolt them out of their depressive funk. The science and technology side of academe has everything to gain as the American humanities departments self-destruct -- which they've done awfully well in the past 20 years, haven't they?

Congratulations to Automotive Autoeroticism for its sensational April cover photo. Horny Hephaestus, do those guys know how to photograph a titanium underbody! Their glossy, polychrome pull-out of Cornish carburetors and Merseyside mufflers also must be seen. Lay tracks, you dynamos of the magazine world! Newsstands are the Alexandrian Library of modern life.

Is it true Gwyneth Paltrow was abducted by anarchists off the loading dock of a tuna-packing plant in Monterey and left to twiddle her thumbs in a Dumpster on Sunset Strip? Well, then, how did she get those Oscar frizzies?

Whoops, must dash. My partner Alison and I are overseeing the renovation and conversion of St. Agita's Roman Catholic Church in South Philadelphia into a New Temple of the Hollywood Astarte. Construction workers are the only Real Men left, let me tell you! Ah, those phallic jackhammers and vulval lunch buckets -- let's go dig up Walt Whitman to sing their praises.

POSTSCRIPT: My article, "Rites of the Lubricious Ear Lobe: Notes on a Tenth Dynasty Pottery Find in Latrines of the Lower Delta," appears in the spring issue of the Journal of Esoteric and Egregious Archaeology.

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About the writer
Camille Paglia, president of the Edna May Oliver Fan Club, recently sold the rights to her book "Andrea Doria Was No Lady" to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a 3-D epic film starring Kate Winslet.

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