QUOTE OF THE DAY. Camille Paglia.

Salon reader Cecil W. Powell writes: "The failure of talkers on liberal radio is in large part due to an absolute inability to poke fun at themselves." How true! Liberal hosts like to snap and snip and chortle snidely, but they are weighed down by a complacent superiority complex, a paralyzing sanctimony. They mistake irony for wit. The conservative hosts love to rant and stomp and bring down the house. They're doing breakneck vaudeville while liberal hosts are primly stirring their non-caffeine green tea.

This from a forum likely to be sympathetic to the pieties so sanctimoniously uttered. But that's the nature of the self-styled progressives, who conflate earnestness with seriousness, the better to induce sleep.