Susan Sontag, author and activist, dies at 71

AP ^ | 12/28/4

[SmithL]

NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.

Sontag died Tuesday morning, officials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said. She had been treated for breast cancer in the 1970s.

Sontag called herself a "besotted aesthete," an "obsessed moralist" and a "zealot of seriousness."

[Grampa Dave]

Thank you!

[verity]

My day has not been ruined.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm not sure why you pinged me to this, nor what your issues are with Jewish women.

[cajungirl]

yep, she saw white people as the scourge of the planet. She did sort of exempt Michelangelo and Darwin and maybe Archimedes. Self hatred is a terrible thing to see. Especially if it involves others.

[cajungirl]

I think the character in Bull Durham liked Susan Sontag.

[Admin Moderator]

#95 removed, because of Condé Nast complaint.

[cajungirl]

LOL,,I think it means she was wildly involved with and loved things of the senses,,like decorating, collecting and looking at art, listening to music.

Your comment did make me laugh and usually I don't laugh on these threads, preferring to sit back in silence and tsk tsk at the heartlessness of freepers. The heartlessness is also leavened by comments like yours!

[BloodScarletMinnesota]

Gee, that's a shame.

[mdmathis6]

Who let the dog out...woof woof woowwooo woof...!

[cajungirl]

Now dear, don't get all weepy on us.

I kind of hate to see these old dames die, even if I don't agree with them I kind of like to have them around. And I guess we whites have caused some problems what with out thing about progress and all. I just don't see us as cancer, not that I mean to offend our non white non cancerous freepers.

[Kerfuffle]

Good point.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Watching the RATS attempt to deal with the President has been a fascinating example of totally underestimating one's enemy. Since they do not recognize him for the master statesman he is they have NO chance of dealing with him. Thank goodness.

[vabeachrepub]

I went through this entire thread without seeing the Bull Durham quote - please forgive me if I missed it.

Here is Kevin costner as Crash Davis in "Bull Durham"

Well, I believe in the soul, the p***s, the v****a, the narrow area of a woman's back, a baseball that is pitched so that I can easily hit it far, lots of fiber in my food, good scotch, and that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated and horrible. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed President John F. Kennedy. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing artificial grass and the rule that allows a baseball team to choose a player at the beginning of the game to substitute for the pitcher in batting. I believe in hitting the baseball with the part of the bat that vibrates less and doesn't hurt my hands as much, pornography that doesn't show sex acts in a very explicit way, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than the night before Christmas, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

[mdmathis6]

You ever notice that the left's most successful intimidation tactic is to accuse one of being stupid if you didn't agree to their philosophies. You are stupid if you hate affirmitive action, you are ignorant if you don't like the UN ect. The boobs who fall for that stuff don't like to see themselves as nincompoops so they fall for this crap!

Then again there is precedent for this type of technique from the Bible. "You shall not surely die, for God knows that when you eat of it, you shall become wise like the Gods, knowing good from evil."

Eve fell for the original Liberal line..."You're stupid if you don't eat the fruit(or agree to be taxed and to have your country's sovereignty destroyed), eat it and you'll be like us Elite Gods!(Euroweenies and various ascended anti American hate groups and Muslim goat lovers)"

[Minn]

I try not to speak ill of the dead, so I won't.

As long as the dead continue voting heavily Democratic, I’ll feel free to speak ill of them.

[WIladyconservative]

Self-indulgent crap. After 9/11: "Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a `cowardly' attack on `civilization' or `liberty' or `humanity' or `the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?" she wrote in The New Yorker.

I won't miss her.

[WIladyconservative]

Sorry, but that's not the speech Crash Davis gave in Bull Durham - this IS the correct one (yours was too wordy):

Well, I believe in the soul, the c***, the p***, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

[WashingtonSource]

Cue the munchkins:

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!

[Osage Orange]

Oops...sorry about that.

FRegards,

[ashtanga]

First, brainwashed people are not courageous, especially when they kill unarmed civilians. I am not impressed at all that they take their own lives in their villainies. Secondly, Sontag was a true believer and a thug enabler. Whatever talent she may have had was hopelessly diluted by her failings as a human.