maureen dowd: what IS this woman's problem anyhoo?

there is something really retro about maureen dowd. she's like the normcore of columnists.

Poppy Bush used to find her funny, which tells me everything.

she is like, america's cool aunt. as a kid, her jokes at thanksgiving seemed sophisticated and cool, like a portal into another, less humdrum world than the one you were familiar with. but looking back, as an adult, it's clear that she was a poseur in the end.

"in the end"

Reading her and colleague William Safire's attempts at bon mots and sophisticated banter was like watching old men trying to pee into the urinal.

still, the Clintons are subhuman garbage and i don't give a shit about style in political writing

xo

that was obvious from the revive

"subhuman garbage"

thanks for staying out of the election thread morbs, my blood pressure thanks you.

fuck you, that thread is for you and your fellow tourettesians

I was happy to see my friend's teenage son posted her 'HRC is the perfect Republican nominee' column on FB the other day, STYLE be damned

'scaling wokeback mountain'

her writing style is overwrought in a way seldom seen in this era, as if in crafting prose she's invented as version of 'wit' that has neither humor nor insight

no clue why you'd use a word like 'mandarins' to refer to people with perceived power in 2019, but she did it recently

she was best buds w/ Poppy Bush so she sure can pick em

plus using Rahm Satan Emanuel as her primary source this week

credit where credit is due. this opening was good:

My favorite “Twilight Zone” episode is the one where aliens land and, in a sign of their peaceful intentions, give world leaders a book. Government cryptographers work to translate the alien language. They decipher the title — “To Serve Man” — and that’s reassuring, so interplanetary shuttles are set up.

But as the cryptographers proceed, they realize — too late — that it’s a cookbook.

That, dear reader, is the story of OpenAI.

Unless you haven't seen that episode before. Maybe a spoiler alert, Mo?