I’m going to be knawing on whether I can get on board with the logic of “clarity of consciousness in her eyes” as a legitimate indicator of intelligence for a while.

“I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist.”

Things That Stand Out

Camille Paglia on the Obamas and Palin