If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman Fries” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.
Today’s was a little difficult: both columns were a little dry, and neither said anything ridiculous. So, I’ve chosen this line from Maureen “Downy Dryer Sheets” Dowd’s column “The Evil of Lesser Evilism,” mostly because I like alliteration and the image of Karzai as some kind of backwards super-hero:
The question for the Obama White House is not whether it can grow to appreciate the caped capo who runs Afghanistan.
Yeah, anyways, moving on.
