My favorite take away from this story is how utterly Maureen Dowd got buried under Paglia’s crisp words. Almost no reportage on Dowd’s contribution to this debate. But then snark only lasts for a day or so before being wrapped up in newspaper and dumped in the garbage. Dowd is turning into the Rodney Dangerfield of the NYTimes.
Random comments:
Palm oil soap from Spain has been around since at least the 1200s and likely back to the Roman Empire or before.
The great Scottish chemist and mountaineer J Norman Collie took the first
( unplanned) medical x-ray.
Washing machines were around long before the 1940s.