[dighton]

This one's a keeper:

Elitism, to be sure, is as old as human society. But never in recorded history has a less cerebrally, morally, or spiritually elite Elite looked down their noses at the majority of their countrymen. The minimum requirement for membership in the intelligentsia used to be, well, intelligence. This is no longer the case. Rather, what is now required is the mere sense of your own superiority . . .

[LisaFab]

Maureen, wrong about almost everything, has been defeated by W's intrinsic goodness and reduced to the status of a bitter, scornful wallflower.

[Orual]

In Dowd's last column she said that the sniper had outsmarted the police. A good example of what Goldblatt means when he says, "The problem with this sort of writing is that it's free-floating sarcasm."