Looks like Maureen Dowd’s bad copy-editing is contagious. New York Magazine’s long and loving profile of Dowd says, “If Judith Miller represents the bad witch of the New York Times in the public imagination—self-important, suffering, wrong—then Maureen Dowd is Glenda.” Uh, you mean Glinda? Or maybe British actress and member of Parliament Glenda Jackson?
Either way, […]

I basically agree with Maureen Dowd in her recent retrospective/post-mortem of the feminist movement. My generation is rejecting the ideals of feminism without really giving them a good try. But modern girls do actually have ideas of their own. For instance: to complain of objectification every time we see a woman’s picture is to condemn […]

Gawker [for the uninitiated, a popular New York media blog] clearly wants to be all jacking my style. Observe —
On Wednesday, October 26, the Annalog wrote:
Sheer genius, presented without comment
On Thursday, October 27, Gawker wrote:
A moment from the series finale of Tara Reid’s Taradise, presented without comment.
AND, on Wednesday, October 26, I posted some […]

I think my responsibility as a blogger is to tell hard truths that mainstream media won’t touch. For instance, from a certain angle, the lovely Brooke Shields looks like . . .
Surprise!

We all have our off days.
Sometimes we use our computer thesaurus to generate nonsense, then publish it in the newspaper:
And former GOP Sen. Dan Coats, whom the White House assigned to assist her win confirmation, said outside groups and pundits and “perhaps even some senators” had rushed to judgment.
Sometimes we snort coke, then leave rehab […]

The debate about whether women should cry in the workplace is actually fascinating, but Cecelie S. Barry is maybe not the pro-tears side’s best spokeswoman.
As a mother, I’ve noticed that my tears can quell the intense rivalry between my two sons; they quickly join forces to comfort me.
Well, yeah. But don’t you remember what a […]

CNN reassures us we’re not missing anything:
Source: No announcement in CIA leak probe today
Looks like Mr. “source with knowledge of the probe” wanted to get in on the leak game before it went out of style. Oops,too late.

Scale models of San Francisco, made of Jell-O.
Thanks for the tip, Nic.

The New Yorker continues its Russian fetish this week, with an item on oxygen-deprivation chambers and the men and women who sell them. TNY lovingly quotes Russian emigre Gary Kotliar’s claim that his chambers have healing powers:
‘Did you know it is used already for treating untreatable diseases?’
Also, they can help you with sleep and sexual […]

At 9:00 P.M., 24 October, the year of Our Lord 2005, Dooley giblet wrote:
NEW HEALTHCARE MARKETING PRODUCT!!!
Mr. giblet declined to specify what this product was. However, he indicated that he could also offer us the United States Healthcare E-mail DATABASE. Because, you know, in our country we have nationalized healthcare.
In Mr. giblet’s country, they […]