October 12, 2005
"OMG!!! Maureen Dowd is making fun of me and no one can even read it!!!"
Maureen Dowd has an op-ed today making fun of Harriet Miers. But you can't read the column -- here -- unless you have TimesSelect, so what the hell difference does it make? Should I even bother to point out that she's using the same idea that Harriet Miers's Blog!!! has been using since October 3rd, the day the nomination was announced?
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Maureen must believe that people should pay to read what she thinks - that's why her articles are under TimeSelect.
Who's Maureen Dowd?
MoDo? Sha. What-ever!
If a dead tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody there to read it, does anybody care?
To TimesSelect, With Love
Those preblog days
Of careless fact-checking
And easy plagiarism are gone
But in my cocoon I know they will
Still live on and on
But how do you thank
An institution which has taken
You from household name to near obscurity?
It isn't easy, but I'll try.
If you wanted my soul
I would email it
Across the web in Zapf Dingbats
That would bore
A million readers nigh
'To TimesSelect, With Love'.
-♡ MoDo
When I was in the Navy (many decades ago), I knew a Quartermaster, repeatedly demoted and promoted, who commented on anything that he saw in a constant stream of obscenity. He was initally interesting to listen to because many of the obscene phrases were quite inventive and novel to me and some amusing.
The fascination soon passed off, for eventually one saw a pattern of repetition in the phrases. Once one's mind began to filter out the obscenity, there was really very little communicated by this unfortunate soul. The repetitive essence was that every person or group of persons -- the XO, the chiefs, the deck gang, the cook, whomever-- had, for bad and twisted imagined reasons, wronged us.
Dowd's language is more genteel.
LOL, lmeade. The question is, will I sing this on my next podcast? Maybe with sufficient paypal donations...
Ann: Maybe you could sing lead on the next podcast, and some of us commenters could be your backing chorus! We could be the Supremes (Court?)! Does this make you Diana Roberts, er, Ross? ;-)
"Maybe with sufficient paypal donations.."
Dear Ann (or should I say "LuLu?"),
Would that be... a dare?
It just so happens I, for one, am feeling somewhat flush.
Dowd will probably win a Pulitzer for this one. The blogger will get readers.
Come on, Ann.
Making fun of Harriet Miers is the gift that keeps on giving.
(And Al Sharpton's Mary Tyler Moore flip-haircut, obviously)
Anyways, I'll be doing much the same thing tomorrow, when my "Strange Bedfellows" post is posted.
It's a wrap-up about how political parties' inherent tensions were brought out with the Miers nomination.
I call her names though. Such fun!
Cheers,
Victoria
First things first: Victoria! Where have you BEEN? Welcome back!
Next: "To Sir with Love" has quite a range, Professor A. You'd have to go to the soprano register and you told me once you've never been a soprano.
Me? I'd be Carmella.
Ruth Anne: Range is the least of my problems. I can't sing.
But listen, everyone! I have theme music now. Wait 'til you hear the next Audible Althouse. I am not kidding, it will be sublime ... for the first few seconds at least.
And note: I am not criticizing Maureen Dowd. I'm criticizing TimesSelect for walling her off from the free flow of the blogosphere. It's sad for poor Mo. She used the same Harriet as airhead voice as Harriet Miers's Blog!!! but that's okay. It can be done twice. It's hard being a columnist when it's so easy for bloggers to get the jump on you. But it's even harder when you're walled off in TimesSelect. Tough times for MoDo. I feel her pain!!!!!!!!
Brylin: Is it possible that you are practicing credentialism?
First things first: Victoria! Where have you BEEN? Welcome back!
Hey Ruth Anne, my Harriet Miers blood-sistah!
Okay that's enough mush. :)
I've been alive, and well, and husbanding my own blog (for a change).
With a little (okay, a lot) of help from the Anchoress, Tim Worstall and Peaktalk, amongst others, I have had the best week traffic-wise since I was Instalanched that time.
So of course, all my other blogging took a back seat for a while.
Fear not, though, I'll never leave Althouse!
Unless of course, Ann asks nicely. :)
Cheers,
Victoria
When Maureen Dowd talks
people everywhere say who?
Thank you Times Select.
Not bad, not bad.
Needs more frogs jumps out of the pond, though, but enough of Daily Kos.
Cheers,
Victoria
Ruth Anne: Range is the least of my problems. I can't sing.
Come onnnn!
You can sing a little, Ann.
Okay, how much you want? I got $2.
Cheers,
Victoria
Victoria: To sing and make a digital file that will be on the internet for everyone to listen to forever? That's got to be more than an egg salad sandwich, which if I remember correctly, had a $500 price tag (that is, I would eat an egg salad sandwich if you paid me $500). I might be willing to sort of half sing it, however.
Victoria: To sing and make a digital file that will be on the internet for everyone to listen to forever? That's got to be more than an egg salad sandwich, which if I remember correctly, had a $500 price tag (that is, I would eat an egg salad sandwich if you paid me $500).
Sheesh. I wonder if deciding to pose nude or not for Playboy required this much thought??
I might be willing to sort of half sing it, however.
Eh. Either go whole-hog, or nothing.
OTOH, although to be sure you're you're on woman and can do as you see fit, whenever I'm blogging, I always ask myself:
What Would Glenn Reynolds Do?
And let's face it. He'd never sing on his blog.
P.S.: I'm selling WWGRD bracelets in case of interest. Cheap.
Cheers,
Victoria
"P.S.: I'm selling WWGRD bracelets in case of interest. Cheap."
I'll buy one. Unless you think GR would pose nude for Playboy, in which case, no thank you.
OMG, Ann! You're totally mentioned and linked to on Miers' blog. How excited you must be!
lmeade: I think you mean "Playgirl," not "Playboy." I don't care if Glenn poses, though, I don't look at either mag.
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