“The party of law and order evidently doesn’t like any law it didn’t order.” Maureen Dowd
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Read New York Times Opinion Pieces Like You Hit A Tennis Ball
Follow through by reading the top “Top Comments”. They always expand the “discussion”.
Por ejemplo, here are two of the top comments from today’s Mauren Dowd essay titled, “Coup-Coup-Ca-Choo, Trump-Style“.
Excellent point H.A. And then there’s this from Jim in Cincy.
Touché Professor Snyder.
What Happened on January 6th, 2021?
Young children will wonder. Maureen Dowd’s answer:
“He draped his autocratic behavior in the American flag. Surrounded by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, F.D.R., M.L.K. and monuments to our war dead, this coward whipped up a horde of conspiracists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and gullible acolytes to try to steal an election for him. He said he would march to the Capitol with them, but he didn’t, of course. He watched his insurrection on TV, like the bum that he is.”
“I Never Told My Father I Was Proud of Him”
Maureen Dowd, “Good Cops, Bad Cops”.
Going against type, Dowd plays it straight. And the result is moving.
“As we rein in and reimagine how a police force should work, we should avoid that word ‘all’.”
If you’re fortunate enough to have a kind and caring dad in your life, avoid Dowd’s mistake of waiting far too long to express your own particular appreciation.
Sentences to Ponder
“Trump is the first president to use the stock market as a near-daily measure of his success — and his virility — and now the market is slumping. If you want to own it on the way up, you have to own it on the way down.”
His “success” and “virility” may take serious hits on Monday.
Pressing Pause 