“I saw that Onion thing about Rudy running for president of 9/11, too, and once again I have been to China.” [New York Times]

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So the blogosphere is all agog with talk over Maureen Dowd’s column today in the TimesSelect, but we’ve read it (thanks to this blogger who gave us the control-C/control-V discount) and our verdict is: meh.

Apparently, Maureen is perseverating on the news that Google has obscured Dick Cheney’s residence in it’s Google Earth software, and thinks that this is exactly the sort of mind-blowing connection of the political world and our world that ought to inspire us to hand the New York Times more money for their sketchy web content:

Through a lens darkly, Dowd murmurs:

Fitting, since Vice has turned America into a camera obscura, a dark chamber with a lens that turns things upside down.

Right! Exactly like a Google Map!

Then, with a neat pivot that offers her a chance to subliminally work a book tie-in (”Guys argue that women tend to stew and hold grudges more…”), she’s off and running to bring it home.

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