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Let's dish. And a delicious dish it is. A stew of race, the New York Times, media hypocrisy and double-standards. All inadvertently stirred by the lovely and talented Times columnist, the white female Maureen Dowd. You know all those fevered editorials they churn out over there at the New York Times editorial board? Like, for instance, the hot fury published on June 30 wonderfully titled "Firefighters and Race." In this jewel the Times editorial board makes its displeasure plain in the very first sentence, huffing that the Supreme Court decision in favor of the New Haven firemen has "dealt a...

<p>The book that is being most heavily promoted on late-night and other liberal television in advance of the Republican National Convention is "Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk" by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.</p> <p>Ms. Dowd's tangy, viperous analysis cuts a fairly broad swath in its targets, but in recent years has zeroed in on what she considers to be the misdemeanors of the cast of characters who form the Bush administration. Bushworld is populated, for example, by the Boy Emperor (President Bush), Rummy (Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld), Wolfie (Deputy Secretary of Donald Defense Paul Wolfowitz) and Uncle Dick of the Underworld (Vice President Dick Cheney).</p>

They were wrong, of course. Soldiers should not go public in the middle of a conflict and trash-talk their superiors or ask for the resignation of the secretary of defense. But it was inevitable that their gripes would bubble to the surface. Many American troops in Iraq are exhausted, and perplexed about the scary new guerrilla war they're caught up in. And they have every right to be scared, because the coolly efficient Bush commanders have now been exposed as short-term tacticians who had no strategy for dealing with a war of liberation that morphed into a war of attrition....

hy, oh Y, are men so insecure? The darlings have been fretting for some years now that they may be rendered unnecessary if women get financial and biological independence, learning how to reproduce and refinance without them. What if nature played a cruel trick and demoted men, so they had to be judged merely by their appearance, pliability and talent for gazing raptly at the opposite sex, no matter how bored? New research on the Y chromosome shows that my jittery male friends are not paranoid; they are in an evolutionary shame spiral. As Nicholas Wade wrote in The Times:...

WASHINGTON — There is an unforgettable scene in "Lawrence of Arabia" when an agonized Lawrence resists as a British commander in Cairo presses him to return to the desert to lead the Arabs revolting against the Ottoman Turks. Lawrence: "I killed two people. One was yesterday. He was just a boy, and I led him into quicksand. The other was . . . well . . . before Aqaba. I had to execute him with my pistol, and there was something about it that I didn't like."General Allenby: "That's to be expected."Lawrence: "No, something else."General Allenby: "Well, then let it...

WASHINGTON — It's an inspired choice. Bold, counterintuitive, edgy, outside the box. Who better to investigate an unwarranted attack on America than the man who used to instigate America's unwarranted attacks?Who better to ferret out government duplicity and manipulation than the man who engineered secret wars, secret bombings, secret wiretaps and secret coups, and still ended up as a Pillar of the Establishment and Nobel Peace Prize winner?It was Dick Cheney's brainstorm, naturally. Only someone as pathologically opaque as the vice president could appreciate the sublime translucency of Henry Kissinger. And only someone intent on recreating the glory days of...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT NOV 23, 2002 10:59:47 ET XXXXX DOWD DECLARES EMINEM IS 'THE BOOMER CROONER' She's back from her Sheltering Sky-like odyssey to Saudi Arabia. Not quite Debra Winger roaming aimlessly on back of camel looking for a mid-life reset, but NY TIMES queen columnist Maureen Dowd appears to have found rejuvenation; back in Washington, fresh and fun in tomorrow's filing. "My girlfriends are surreptitiously smitten with Eminem," Dowd declares, according to newsroom sources. "They buy his posters on eBay. They play him on their Walkmen at the gym. They sing along lustily to "Cleanin' Out...