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2. And it is what I find so frustrating about the vapidity of their answers –– and the inability of the confirmation process, as currently constructed, to elicit much beyond these formulaic incantations about the rule of law.

3. They will have their eyelids fastened back like Malcolm McDowell‘s in A Clockwork Orange, and be compelled to watch a DVD of the Dome‘s Millennium Eve variety show, which, as you know, was an event that typified New Labour‘s spiritual vapidity and philistinism.

4. Bush‘s quasi–automatic talk about the need for democratization and for the stabilization of a moderate Sunni axis reverberated in its full vapidity when he poured cold water on the Mecca initiative and before that also on Syria‘s feelers and on Hamas? integration into the PA government.

5. It‘s a vicious bulls–eye on the vapidity of famous–for–being–famous, skinnier–than–thou culture, and it‘s hard to share Pink‘s hope that her celebrity victims would ‘find humour in the message‘. (I think she‘d be lucky if they realise there is a message). With lyrics such as ‘Whatever happened to the dream of the girl President/ She‘s dancing in a video next to 50 Cent‘, ‘Stupid Girls‘ works as a flash of long overdue feminist anger. ‘It‘s about an entire generation, a culture and mentality, that I just find so boring,‘ says Pink. ‘And I find it frustrating that I have to Google and search for smart responsible women – women I never get to see on the cover of a magazine unless they‘re getting a divorce or a boob job or having a great pair of shoes or going to a cool party.‘ It‘s almost as if feminism has stopped being a dirty word and become a forgotten word instead.