The cutting edge

I try to avoid the prose stylings of conservative columnists in an effort to keep my blood pressure down, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I have thought for quite a while that conservative columnist Michelle Malkin is an idiot, but this column confirms it for me. It’s all about the new craze that’s sweeping the nation: teenage girls cutting themselves. Yeah, cutting is a new trend. Didn’t I read a big story about it in the New York Times Magazine circa 1995? Michelle is so cutting-edge. She blames the current craze on Hollywood. Ummh, yeah, teenage girls are cutting themselves because they want to be like Christina Ricci. Does anyone want to be like Christina Ricci? Malkin confirms how out of touch she is with this statement: “There is even a new genre of music -- ‘emo’ -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.” I’ll admit that emo is responsible for some bad haircuts and an excess of messenger bags, but cutting?