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Don't invite Susan Estrich and Arianna Huffington to the same party. Writes Estrich:
This is, after all, the woman who runs against oil interests and lives in a mansion financed by oil money, rails against pigs at the trough and pays no taxes, runs as an independent and supports a guru. She's even got a documentary crew following her for the campaign. I wonder if they filmed the children moving out...
It is the people supporting her whom I find utterly inexplicable -- or, rather, indefensible. She doesn't pretend to have principles. But don't they? The ease with which she has taken Hollywood by storm is an embarrassing confirmation of the shallowness of my hometown.
Estrich's last column discussed the aftermath of her rape at the point of an ice pick as a 20-year-old, and how it influences her view of the Kobe Bryant case.