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"Proving that the library is more a monument to Laura’s artful airbrushing than W.’s artless leadership..."

"... there’s a swank Café 43 with fancier fare than W.’s cherished PB&J’s, and a gift shop featuring Laura’s favorite books, from Dostoyevsky’s 'Brothers Karamazov' to Truman Capote’s 'Music for Chameleons.'"

६७ टिप्पण्या:

Unknown म्हणाले...

I read about 5 paragraphs and had to quit. This Maureen Dowd person is demented.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Yeah, but I thought there was some potential to talk about "The Brothers Karamazov" in connection with the presidential politics of the last dozen years.

MathMom म्हणाले...

When I think about "artless leadership", I think about Obozo.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

W's cherished PB&J's what?

How W is trying to run away from his Presidency if he's opening a library dedicated to describing it?

Dowd's column is so very incoherent. And I'd talk about the Brothers Karamazov, but I have never read a Dostoevsky novel.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

@Madison Man Well, here:

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/grand.htm

At least read "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter.

ricpic म्हणाले...

Is that woman tickling W's statue's hand?!

Paco Wové म्हणाले...

"I have never read a Dostoevsky novel."

Well, I hate to be a snob, but sex with you is right out the window, then (vide No. 17).

SteveR म्हणाले...

She falls into the pattern of praising Obama by talking about Bush. And by excusing the first four years. Yeah now its time to get started.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

In a speech at the National Defense University, Obama talked ... he concluded with a slap at W.: “Our victory against terrorism won’t be measured in a surrender ceremony at a battleship or a statue being pulled to the ground.”

Maureen Dowd is so far gone she doesn't realize Bush said that, more than once.

Chip S. म्हणाले...

However artful Laura's airbrushing may be, she's not in Jackie O's league.

Phil 314 म्हणाले...

Well, she hit all the talking points.

Phil 314 म्हणाले...

Well, she hit all the talking points.

Unknown म्हणाले...

If Dowd has a coherent point what is it?

A foolish and ill considered column about people and events she doesn't understand.

Michael म्हणाले...

Dowd is making up with the boyfriend and the mean things she stupidly blurted last week about his incompetency. None of which did she really mean.

edutcher म्हणाले...

It's not just a river in Egypt, is it, MoDo?

Levi Starks म्हणाले...

wow, she really hates Bush, she must be a racist


Levi Starks म्हणाले...

wow, she really hates Bush, she must be a racist


gadfly म्हणाले...

Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky is much harder to read than MoDo - so if we cannot abide the NY nitwit, what chance is there with a Rusky?

Jason म्हणाले...

Ho ho ho ho. These people still think Obama grew up "hardscrabble." Ha ha ha ha! At PUNAHOU! HAHAHAHA!!!!

Hammond X. Gritzkofe म्हणाले...

OK, Althouse, I get it.

I never would have thought to read the New York Times. After all your posts linking NYT articles, I now know why.

Enough with the NYT, already.

CatherineM म्हणाले...

Hardscrabble my Aunt Fanny! How does growing up with your upper middle class Bank VP grandparents and attending THE prep school in Hawaii = hardscrabble?

Dowd thought, oh, I can squeeze one more mocking Bush column with the library opening. Easy peezy.

Whenever I think if MoDo, I think of her dumbass column on Saudi Arabia. She was shocked SHOCKED that she wasn't allowed to walk around by herself in that country even though she's an AMERICAN! What a dumb dumb

अनामित म्हणाले...

What if eternity is nothing but a bathhouse full of spinsters?

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Bush's nickname for Dowd was Cobra, probably for the basket.

Cody Jarrett म्हणाले...

Since when was barry a ConLaw prof?

Fucking hell.

Cody Jarrett म्हणाले...

You can be forgiven for thinking you’ve wandered into the Gore presidential library when you come upon a wall devoted to protection of the ocean and odes to “vital wetlands” and “marine habitats.” Who knew W. was passionately on the side of the humphead parrotfish?

Umm...I did.

I guess that makes me smarter than MoDo.

Then again, my dog's ass is smarter than MoDo.

But Ann thinks she's a beautiful person I guess, cuz we keep getting bludgeoned by her every week.

Clyde म्हणाले...

No waterboarded jihadi was as tortured as poor Ms. Dowd was by having to go to that museum in Texas and pretend to be polite while there. Who says that people don't get what they deserve?

Chip Ahoy म्हणाले...

Ah, that river in Egypt again, its life's blood, known for its tributaries, the Projection River, and the Displacement River, and the Sublimation River, all fraught with dangerous wildlife and natural hazards. The Rationalization River and the River of Repression. I have traveled these waterways in museums and libraries and studied their arts. But I must not leave out the series of Reaction Formation Cataracts, and the southernmost portion reaching into Sudan, Regression Creek.

LYNNDH म्हणाले...

And Bush did more to fight AIDS in Africa than ANY OTHER President.

And he can ride a real bike, not the trike that Obama rode.

Carl म्हणाले...

There's that great line from "Good Morning Vietnam": in more need of a blowjob than any white man in history.

If I ever learn what the equivalent is for a woman, I'll know better how to characterize Maureen Dowd. Saying she writes as if she's so constipated it would take a team of fifty thousand rotifers with diamond teeth two full weeks to bore her colon clean doesn't seem to fully capture the queasy combination of full-on virago hate and please please like me homecoming queen runner-up that infuses her droolings.

Michael K म्हणाले...

I certainly hope Maureen is home in NYC when the Iranian nuke goes off in NY Harbor.

Xmas म्हणाले...

Obama cannot escape Bush's legacy as long as he continues to top the blemishes of the Bush Presidency.

More drone bombing than Bush. Worse unemployment than Bush. Prisoners kept in Guantanamo longer than Bush. More civilians killed than Bush.

Sam L. म्हणाले...

MoDo, being MoDo, is Mo Dumb. And Mo ignoring of what Benghazi Barry is and is not doing.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

Dowd is making up with the boyfriend and the mean things she stupidly blurted last week about his incompetency. None of which did she really mean.

That makes sense.

Ambrose म्हणाले...

I actually read Brothers Karamazov last year. The whole thing too, not just the Grand Inquisitor. You can get a lot of good books for free on Kindle. Not bad at all. Do you think our President ever read it in that hardscrapple Hawaiian private school?

अनामित म्हणाले...

I had some hardscrapple once. I don't recommend it.

Michael Haz म्हणाले...

Maureen Dowd. Remember when she was sober and happy?

Me neither.

JAL म्हणाले...

You know, I am pretty sure W knows how to read.

Eric Metaxes casually mentioned something about him reading his biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

When is someone going to tell Dowd that Harvard Business School has people read and write?

Kev म्हणाले...

(the other kev)

Dumping that stupid bitch may have the smartest move Michael Douglas ever made.

Mark म्हणाले...

Dowd must have gotten a call from the IRS.

I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...

I hope they made this hateful MoDo buy an dmission ticket to get into the Library.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

Jean-Paul Sartre robot says":
"Hell is other people."

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

George Michael Robot says:
People....
You can never change the way they feel.
Better let them do just what they will.
For they will,
If you let them steal your heart.....

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”

John Lennon Robot says:

"I am the Walrus: goo goo g'joob"

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

Kraftwerk Robot says:

"I am adding
And subtracting
I'm controlling
And composing
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator"

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

Michael Jackson Robot says:

No Comment.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”

Bob Dylan Robot says:

"The pump don’t work
’Cause the vandals took the handles"

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs Robot say:

"Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully"



अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

Divinyls Robot says:

"I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I do anything for you"

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:,

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”

David Lee Roth Robot says"

"Goddamn it lady, you know I ain't lyin' too ya, I'm gonna tell you one time."

अनामित म्हणाले...

Note to Self:

Why did it take me So Long to Discover the David Lee Roth Robot?


अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:,

“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”

David Lee Roth Robot says:

"Yeah, we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off
You know what I'm sayin'
Ahh, I reach down between my legs n' ease the seat back"

अनामित म्हणाले...

Ann Althouse Robot: Law Professor.

David Lee Roth Robot: "Hot For Teacher."

I Will Not Connect Those Dots.





But I am Picturing Ann in the Passenger Seat of a Lime Green 1978 Camaro.

n.n म्हणाले...

So, Dowd looks down upon people who eat PB&J. Is that why she prefers Obama, because he eats like a king, while his subjects suffer a progressive impoverishment?

अनामित म्हणाले...

Dostoyevsky Robot says:,

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”


Patti Smith Robot says:

"Manky."

Paddy O म्हणाले...

"in connection with the presidential politics of the last dozen years."

The Idiot might be a better choice for Bush (and not because of the seemingly insulting title)

Paddy O म्हणाले...

I had a Dostoevsky phase about ten years ago. Really good phase to be in.

John henry म्हणाले...

So what books did MoDo read this week?

If she is going to criticize other's reading habits, she should share her own.

FWIW: I am currently rereading, for about the 5th time, LeCarre's The Honorable Schoolboy.

John Henry

JAL म्हणाले...

If Bush's leadership was "artless," what is Obama's?

Artful?

More like ham fisted "detachment."

AlanKH म्हणाले...

Maureen Dowd is sulfuric acid in a skirt.

hoyden म्हणाले...

There is a finite, non-zero probability that MoDo will say something noteworthy. The odds are much better reading the comments here and skipping the article.

Thanks, folks.

Unknown म्हणाले...

Gadfly said, "Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky is much harder to read than MoDo...."

I can't agree with that. I've read to the end entire novels by Dostoyevsky but couldn't make it halfway through Dowd's snarky gibberish.

Limited Blogger म्हणाले...

Visited yesterday. Watched the clip of Bush 43 on 9/11 with a bullhorn, speaking from his heart, not from a teleprompter.

FYI -- Unlike the Oval Office mock-up in Clinton's library, which is roped off, you can go right in Bush's Oval and sit behind the desk.

And "Cafe 43" is not swanky or expensive. It is small, with 2 cheerful employees, offering Starbucks coffee, bottled water, cookies, and sandwiches.

James Graham म्हणाले...

Only MoDo would write a column about W in a week when even the MSNBC robots are criticizing President B O.

Baron Zemo म्हणाले...

Haters gotta hate.

Baron Zemo म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Mitch H. म्हणाले...

I stole my sister's copy of Brothers Karamazov back in college. Well, borrowed. Damn fine book. Ivan's sections are pure poetry, Alyosha's too damn pure to tolerate except in small doses, and the rest of the family are tedious time-wasters that bloat the book beyond its natural length. But the "Grand Inquisitor" and that section about the tortured child make the rest of it worth the read.

Since 43's been known to read Camus, I find it odd, the insinuation that the book is Laura's pick, and not George's. Is that an actual thing, or just Dowd being Dowd?