Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Bridgid Dowdis an American columnist for The New York Times, and a best-selling author...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 January 1952
bored political insane
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
wisdom sophisticated pranks
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
optimism attention annoying
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.
political siege losing
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.
blow presidential would-be
President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.
volleyball eye garden
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.
want cost protected
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
ideas american-exceptionalism exceptional
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
writing
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.
enough ifs
If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.
Are women necessary? Not with Ava around
lasts source betray
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
writing another-woman ifs
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
sex party fighting
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.