Posts Tagged ‘Maureen Dowd’
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinions in The Times. Frank Rich/Party Like It’s 2008 The Short Version: Friends, thank you! I, Frank Rich, have won the Democratic primary! In his words: “This is not 2004, when another Democrat from Massachusetts did for windsurfing what the previous model did for tanks.” Score: B- (Blather) […]
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Tags: Clinton, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Mother's Day, Nicholas Kristof, Obama, Teen Spirit, Thomas Friedman
On the Opinion Page: May 7, 2008
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinions in The Times. Thomas Friedman/The Democratic Recession The Short Version: Thanks, oil! You’ve caused democratic government to wane around the world. In his words: “I’ve long argued that the price of oil and the pace of freedom operate in an inverse correlation — which I call: “The […]
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Tags: Maureen Dowd, Oil, The New York Times, Thomas Friedman
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/The Petraeus-Crocker Show Gets the Hook The Short Version: Even I can’t get outraged over the Iraq war anymore. In his words: “Yet I must confess that, sitting in MoMA, I kept looking beyond the frame of Mr. Morris’s movie as well.” […]
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Tags: Frank Rich, Global Warming, Iraq, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, The Clintons, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/Tet Happened, and No One Cared The Short Version: McCain is a big fucking idiot. In his words: “The sum total of his public record suggests that he could well prolong the war for another century — not because he’s the crazed […]
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Tags: Frank Rich, John McCain, Maureen Dowd, McNice, Nicholas Kristof, Racism, Sexism, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Nicholas Kristof/The Pimps’ Slaves The Short Version: Save the girls! In his words: “Pimps crush runaway girls with a mix of violence and affection, degradation and gifts, and then require absolute obedience to a rigid code: the girl cannot look the pimp in […]
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Tags: George W. Bush, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Pimps, Prostitution, Slaves, The New York Times, Whores