The Strange Case Of Maureen Dowd

This is what Maureen Dowd has become. And regardless of her politics, it's just sad that a once-great newspaper features an effort like that on its editorial page. Its Sunday editorial page to boot!

Maybe I'm just not intellectual enough to "get" it. Or New York cosmopolitan enough. Or open-minded enough. Or something. But I really don't think any of that's the case.

And it's not just Maureen Dowd's politics. I love this piece by Richard Connelly, whose political orientation, I suspect, is far to my left. It's the sort of piece Maureen Dowd might have written, but didn't. Hell, she should have just ripped off Connelly and been done with it (The local Chron rips off the Press all the time, and we have some idea from the Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin experiences that the price of theft isn't all that high these days).

Of course, I still wouldn't want to see it on the NY Times editorial page. Hell, I wouldn't want to see the latest Dowd piece in an alt-weekly like the Houston Press, where two of my favorite writers work.

[Posted at 22:38 CST on 01/27/02] [Link]