Tom Friedman has a thoroughly unremarkable piece up, which wasn’t a very compelling read until the very end when I saw this:
Maureen Dowd is on leave until Aug. 10.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.
When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
This blog will pay for itself.
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
The unpunished coup was a training exercise.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.
If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.
’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’
The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.
Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…
Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.
Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
Stormy70
She’s coming back? Ugh. Elderly school girl, indeed.
demimondian
Cellphone service as good as Ghana’s, eh? Cellphone service as good as Japan’s?
How about landline service in Ghana at all? How about cellphone service in Japan without a government supported monopoly gouging prices? Sheesh.
Yes, I could get EVDO service in Europe, and, if I wasn’t charing the cell, get better throughput than I get here in the States. But I can go home and get better throughput still through my DSL connection…and not pay by the packet.
<grumble> Tom Friedman is a flat-headed idiot </grumble>
Don Surber
Yellin’ Zell: “You can see horns just sprouting up through that Technicolor hair.”
Mo Ho: “I’m not a highbrow hussy from New York. I’m a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords?”
Spitballs, woman, spitballs
itsbits
her mother just passed away….
Gary Farber
They’ve been running that notice for months, while she’s been gone.
Here’s why: please read this.
Gary Farber
Apologies. Make it this you read, please.
Joe Albanese
I think his point is that she will be coming back soon. I welcome her return as I love her wit, humor and scalpel like incisions into the body politic.
Luddite
You rang? :-)
DougJ
I kind of like Maureen Dowd, though I don’t care for her politics obviously. Her recent article on her mother was quite touching and charming. I also, though I hate to admit this, find her kind of attractive.
Matthew J. Stinson
You just know that Friedman piece was thrown together in the back of a taxi cab while he was pontificating to the driver on how he knows someone who knows someone famous who told him that “camblogging sure is neat.”
How the driver avoided immediately falling asleep and crashing the cab, we’ll never know.
Mr Furious
Alas, the return of Dowd, means the departure of Sarah Vowell. Though her NYT columns has been a bit uneven, and often seemed too quirky for a major OpEd page, she had some great columns.
Coupled with the rest of her career, I’ll continue to consider her a genius.