The peevish porcupine beats the shrill rooster. Camille Paglia covers ground in her year-end wrap-up column. I love the pastiche that cultural critics can make in the name of their craft. She comments on various absurdities of the Florida vote boondoggle and the media’s coverage of it, praises Rush Limbaugh’s integrity and fluency (and credits him with ending the era of political correctness in America), and compiles a hot dog geography of the U.S. I’m glad she includes Simco’s on the Bridge in Mattapan, Mass. I was once lucky enough to work a block away from there and indulged frequently, although the people with whom I took my lunch break there were as much the attraction as Simco’s dogs. Salon