[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
Maureen DowdFor two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
Maureen DowdJournalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
Maureen DowdMy eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
Maureen DowdThe Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.
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