The only good thing about reading Maureen online is the color photos you get that you wouldn't get in the print edition. Ms Dowd writes more about herself and the experience of her father as a Capitol police officer and his disarming of one of the Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire from the House of Representatives gallery, wounding five Congressman in the process. It was 1954. As in a long time ago. She's told the story in her column many times. Yes Maureen, we've heard about this. You're the daughter of a police officer. Lots of people are.
There is nothing in her incomplete forward pass about the widow Dominque Luzuriaga's eulogy about the new asshole she ripped the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, and the standing ovation it lead to.
Maureen, not being from New York, may not even be aware of the DA's statements a few weeks ago about how his office was going to downsize crime. He can't change the penal code, but he stated he's perfectly willing to ignore it.
Maureen doesn't even mention any words from NYC's first female police commissioner, Keechant L. Sewell, a Black woman who was chief of detectives in Nassau County. Maureen may not even know where that is. (It's adjacent to Queens County, one of NYC's five boroughs, or counties that is often lumped in with the non-Manhattan boroughs and referred to by the NYT as an "outer borough," despite being connected by two bridges and tunnels, rail and auto.)
Ms. Dowd is a favorite punching bag for me. She doesn't work very hard. I constantly applaud the three columns a week, eventually two, that Russell Baker wrote years ago. That too is long time ago. To paraphrase Lloyd Bensten, she's no Russell Baker. But then again, who is? Her back of an envelope column only appears once a week. Perhaps The Times has her on half pay.
Even if that's the case, they're not getting their money's worth.
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