So I’ve noticed that a lot of people I know are just in love with Maureen Dowd. And I’ll admit, for a while I was a Maureen Dowd fan-girl but I was seriously disappointed with her after her extremely vicious attacks on Hillary. There is one blog that actually has a few very poignant examples of this that I like. (And I know, I have been an avid Hillary supporter so perhaps I took it more personally than I would have if it had been someone else). But what I noticed when I was reading her work is that her writing is just seething with venom for anyone she doesn’t particularly care for. I mean sure I’ve gotten a kick out of her depictions of W and Palin but I do think they are caricatured to a degree. I mean I feel that W and Palin leave themselves far more open to her attacks than any other figures out there. The part that I find amazing is that there are so many MD fan-girls but I rarely hear anyone speak of Gail Collins. Now I have recently discovered Collins while I have been on vacation and I have to say that I love her work. Personally, I think of her as wittier, funnier and less bitchy than Dowd, why wouldn’t I prefer her column? Or say Paul Krugman, his pieces are typically more thoughtful and substantive than hers. I mean sure MD is still interesting to read but I don’t quite get the hype that surrounds her. I just think there are other political writers that are far more put together and some are still somewhat biased but not so far out there that you no longer have a sense of what the truth is anymore.