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I'm surprised that bicycles are not denounced as communist (China), or the sign of a socialist pot-smoker (Holland).

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Hendricks libel!

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Hah! But no actual cukes in the drink. Only olives or lemon twists. There are standards.

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My blue coffee mug keeps distracting me from reading this stuff. Probably my brain acting in self-defense.

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Fortunately, in the De Blasio administration, Ephrons will be phased out, as they no longer meet minimum standards for air quality.

And yes, using your oven for other things is a NYC thing. I know one person who keeps winter clothes in his, another who uses it for extra books. Both had the gas turned off years ago. A microwave in the oven sounds entirely plausible.

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She also throws in some <i>Obama doesn't work very hard</i> because he didn't engage enough with the very people she earlier in the same column calls "Tea Party zanies."

She doesn't accept the idea that, for all the Republican complaints that Obama wouldn't negotiate, had Obama's name been attached the exact same negotiated compromise plan, the Republicans would have dug their heels in even more and there'd still be a shut down.

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Maureen Dowd is a petty contrarian who values sounding "independent" instead of making sense.

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No one in NYC has blue Christmas lights? Maybe that's a Southern thing.

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Cucumbers in a Martini? What kind of savages are these?

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Yo, dawg, I heard you like ovens, so we put an oven in your oven so you can bake while you bake.

Hey, somebody had to say it.

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An "all-out civil war" you say? Way to get my hopes up.

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You are close, as it has to do with dicks of a sort.

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Oh, Tobias, you're such a blowhard.

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So, MoDo thinks that all Obama needs is a charm offensive? Did she sleep through his first term? Also, people like Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachmann have no capacity for charm.

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Oh, I am pretty sure they have enough money.

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