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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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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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.