[Diogenesis]

This witch's knee-pad love for Gore and X42 is sickening.

If she did her job, the US would have had protection.

[Arkie2]

We're living the hangover from 8 years of inattention and rule by a president who thought more about his libido tham the security of this nation. The parties over. Time to sober up.

[FReethesheeples]

Maureen's so funny! (NOT!)

Cut Maureen Dowd's head off and sew it into a pig belly and send it to the family.

[YaYa123]

and she has the nerve to call President Bush schizophrenic?

[janus]

From his jagged lair, Osama Bin Laden was summoning up a swarm of demonic creatures to invade our brains.

She must have got hold of some powerful weed. Prose like that can only be produced by a good dose of Maui wowie.

[Ratatoskr]

God, what a waste of skin this woman is. I'm so grateful the vast majority of us are showing backbone.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Only five weeks ago, we inhabited a paradise of trivia, wallowing in celebrity, consumerism and cosmetic-surgery advances.

Speak for yourself, maureen dowdy.

[Havisham]

I can't read Dowd through. She's so colossally ignorant.

[RandallFlagg]

With any luck, she'll be chased around by little Christina Augillera monsters nipping at her soles....

**raaa**

"What th--?"

**raaaa**

"YAAAHHHH!! RUN!!!"

[IoCaster]

This is some funny sh!t. Funny, pathetic, whiny and ironic. Perhaps it's time for this drooling idiot to double dose on her meds. Reality rears it's ugly head and she is unprepared to deal with the implications. Moronic little twit that she is. Too bad, so sad.

[Cicero]

When, oh when, is the New York Times going to wake up and dump this idiot? She is a) ignorant; b) too lazy to go out and research her columns; c) the worst writer the Times has ever had working for them, bar none.

Time to admit they made a mistake and cut their losses.

[HoustonKevin]

maureen dowd makes me puke!

I need one of those little puke'ing characters about this time... How 'bout a little help.

Hey maureen, it was your lover-boy Billy who was asleep at the wheel! Too damn afraid to do a real man's job! Thank God we have a real Man in the Whitehouse now!

I hope you rot in hell with him and his wife!

[tet68]

any idea that there was a federal firewall has been shattered.

Maroon,the question is why did you believe in a "federal firewall" anyway?

Now we inhabit a paranoia of trivia, worrying about potential mortal threats

Yes,Maureen I'm getting low on reloading supplies.

Say,what's that white powder on your keyboard?

[McGavin999]

No one is ever ready for these things. Those who get ready real quick like survive, those who don't, won't. I know it sounds harsh, but that's the truth of it. There is NO WAY to protect yourself from thugs like this, no way for our government to guarantee our safety. Now is when we find out what we're made of as a people.

I don't see a dicotomie in "Live your life, spend, enjoy" and "be vigilant". We can do both.

Best advice, for circumstances like these, is to live your life to the fullest (just in case), make sure you're ready to meet your maker, and pray that you don't have to for a long, long time.

We're not sniveling cowards, we're not going to hide in our homes, we're going to do what needs to be done....all of us. We're going to be nicer to each other because we'll never know if it's the last time we'll ever see each other. We're going to remember what's important in this life, in case we're suddenly sent into the next. We're going to learn to stand on our own two feet and to lean on each other instead of expecting our government to do it for us. In other words, we are going to act like that unique being that we've recently rediscovered....an American.

[alnick]

Dowd: Season of the Witch, an autobiography

[jackbill]

Not to worry, Maureen. Whoever is sending the "anthrax mail" to the media is only sending them to important people in the media. You know, like Tommy Brokejaw and the Inquirer.

[KingKongCobra]

Damn, deceptive headline. I thought it would tell me where Hillary has been hiding lately.

[xm177e2]

This would be a fine article except for one small line: The president, an Andover cheerleader... why does she have to be so insulting? It's not at all tasteful, it just makes her look like a jerk. Please, Maureen, pull yourself together, for your own good! You don't want to end up like Molly Ivins, do you?

[Licensed-To-Carry]

This woman Dowd, never a more total idiot has walked the face of the earth.

Clueless.

[opinionator]

The record I loved best was Rimsky-Korsakov's romantic "Scheherazade," about the young Islamic woman who spellbinds an Arab sultan with 1,001 tales. The record that frightened me was Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," the surreal celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath — so vividly animated in "Fantasia."

Look at how sophisticated I am! I speak of things that 99% of my readers know nothing about. Please worship me as the goddess I am.