Writer defends Ann Coulter

I don't pretend to understand all that Meghan Daum says in her defense of Ann Coulter in the Los Angeles Times, but if she defends St. Ann, she's all right by me.

Sample:

Duh, people! The woman isn't a pariah, she's a comic genius, an anthropologist with an edge, the adopted lovechild of Oscar Wilde and Gore Vidal (see what happens when gays get to be parents?). Not just anyone gets endorsed by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, whose mission statement includes "defending the cultural foundations of a free society," which, in layman's terms, means "understanding the joke, so no one else has to."