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Friday, August 23, 2002

We Are (Disturbingly) Everywhere

From a New York Observer article on Ann Coulter:
Ms. Coulter said she was a "good girl" as a teenager and that one thing she was worried about before her book came out was people sifting through her past looking for dirt. She and an old friend tried, but turned up nothing. "You know, no nude pictures, no drugs, no scandals, no weird associations," she said. She attended Cornell University, was in the Delta Gamma sorority, founded the right-wing Cornell Review. Then came the University of Michigan Law School, where she said she was "infamous"; she started the Federalist Society chapter and began following the Grateful Dead in earnest-she now estimates she saw the band 67 times, but never did even half a hit of LSD.

"No drug has ever tempted me except LSD," she said. "When I'm in the nursing home some day.... I've never smoked pot except passively at Dead shows, but I got a lot of it there." Ms. Coulter can drink, though. "I am a WASP," she said. In 1989, she clerked for a federal appeals court judge in Kansas City. I told her I grew up there.

posted by xian at 8/23/2002 04:20:53 PM

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