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.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
Bark louder, little dog.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.
“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.
When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.
Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.
Fear or fury? The choice is ours.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.
It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.
Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.
Come on, man.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
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.