DOWN WITH DOWD

It's a shame--really, I'm not just saying that--a shame that the NY Times continues to publish the unending train of nonsense that is the opining career of Maureen Dowd. Such august journalistic real estate, wasted on such a lack of depth or talent. Her latest is probably not the worst. column. ever. But it's close. She yammers on about how our "coalition of the willing" is imaginary, as though she can't seem to remember than such obscure countries as the UK, Australia, Spain, Italy, and the entire former east bloc are with us on the war. In the same breath she accuses the Bush team of fantasizing about this imaginary coalition, and using the war in Iraq to diplay "raw, naked American power" as an end in itself. Ramesh Ponnuru ably deconstructs her arguments in today's NRO.

I promise you if I could line up a random sampling of any 100 bloggers and their friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, cousins and pets and just tossed a rock in the general direction of that group, it would hit someone who'd make better use of the Times' editorial page than does Maureen Dowd. No question about it.