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Sooo glad to hear you say that B!

I tend to not get involved in any discussions about Madge, because it brings out the worst side of me. Well, one of my bad sides anyway. But... let me just say I have always loathed her. And my revulsion of her just keeps growing as the years pass. I find that pretty amazing, actually. But people will keep going on about her. Well, please allow me to go on about her for once...

Sure, her story is Downtown club goer's rags-to-riches story. And it should provide inspiration to all of us for that fact alone. Perhaps the reason that she, is at heart, a morally bankrupt senseless bitch, might have something to do with the reason she leaves me so ininspired by her rise to fame and glory.

Sure, she's made some really "clever" career moves. Perhaps the reason for this is that she has continued to employ very "clever" managers, publicists, and other handlers to do the real work for her. Maybe a few of the ideas actually come from her, too. I really cannot say for sure, but from what I remember of the child, I might venture to guess that her contributions were slim indeed. I would say that she has been very lucky. Perhaps she has a pact with Mestophiles, or the Skull and Bones club at Yale, to insure that her luck doesn't run out in that regard.

Sure, some of her songs are catchy, or well-produced, or deal with controversial or obscure subject matter. She has, it is said, made a very fringe concept like vogueing a household word in this country. Sure she has.

Regarding her so-called muse...
This country is a nation of liars and thieves. Presidents and priests blatently lie to our faces, and then put their hired spin doctors to work. College students and newspaper reporters routinely lift entire passages from books without bothering to credit their sources. Cooking and decorating TV stars consistently steal everyone else's recipes and ideas and manage to parlay them into multi-million dollar businesses. Songwriters steal right and left, and, as long as it's under four measures, that's cool. And the more people you steal from as you craft a single song, even cooler, because it obscures all that messy tell-tale evidence.

We are now living in the ultimate post-postmodern age, regurgitating third-hand vomit from spewers who cannot even be bothered to find out who'd ingested the original meal. Relishing the fact that, by the time it's finally come up from the last gut, it's gotten more and more watered down, and therefore more acceptable somehow. And why bother to give your sources any credit anyway? Nobody really cares about that shit, right? Right.

Yes, America is a country where originality is scorned and reviled and starved. Impostors and plagiarists are rewarded and honored. And, though both our nation and our time are not unique in this pursuit, we have speeded up, streamlined and nationalized this dishonesty in such a remarkably efficient manner that we have come to resemble a cultural Nazi Germany. With the corporations that relentlessly market our "popular" culture worldwide, as cruelly soulless as that country's human extermination machinery.

I say good for Madonna. Keep on producing those "songs" and "concepts". Get richer, girl. You really owe it to yourself. And to your fans.

There. I've "gone on" (and on) about Madonna... finally.

Oh, one more thing...

As far as Madonna's new-found "religion" goes... we really shouldn't deride it. It seems to be as real and as viable for her... as much as the American brand of right-of-center Christianity is for most Americans.

And me, I'd much rather be a Jew than a Scientologist any day!
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