One cannot help but wonder if Dowd threw the discussion of high-school lesbianism into an op-ed on immigration policy just because she . . . . Eeeeeewwww! Perish the thought!

Or tossed a swipe at President Bush into a piece about lesbian chic.

I did have the thought, three-quarters of the way through, that this was a coming-out piece, but, no, it turns out she's not even that interesting.

It's a simple attention-grabbing device. Blogs that mention Brittney Spears (sp?) are an example.

I guess we expected better from the NYT.

Isn't she saying that President Bush is a lesbian (no pun intended)?

Besides trying to comprehend the central message(s) of the editorial, I'm trying to get that last line and I don't. Is Lesbian the new L word? If so, what was the "old" L word? Or if lesbian was the old L word, what's the new one?

"Liberal" is the old "L word" and, I think, a GHWBushism.

Brilliant commentary. Ms. Dowd is now clearly fit for an interview on the Howard Stern show.

I was clearly born 15 years too early. If I had been told that, in 2003, ten bucks could get your female classmates to make out with each other -- not to mention that said female classmates would no longer ostracize you for reading Lord of the Rings, but might even want to chat about it -- I would have crawled back in the womb and hit the "snooze" button.

She's so coy. I cannot tell whether she blames Bush or Rove for teenage girls in Washington being lesbians.

I thought liberals just loved illegals! Opps, I mean "undocumented aliens". Here's "W" doing pretty much what the libs want regarding open borders and amnesty, and they still can't stand it!!

I bet she blames the Neocons for plagues of frogs, sunspots and lite beer.

Yeah, but nothing would beat blaming Bush for mail fraud committed by Nigerian lesbians...

Girls kissing girls? Good Lord... what are guys complaining about?!

There was a woman in the office where I worked 15 years ago whom we nicknamed 'the black hole of dumbness'. Walk by her cube, and you got smarter - she sucked the dumb right out of you. One guy walked by and later said he suddenly understood points about differential equations that had always baffled him.

I wonder if that happens at the Times? Of course, there is no evidence of it, but I'll bet there are stories. Lots of stories.

This may be the worst op-ed column ever to appear in the New York Times.

With apologies to George F. Will and his comment about Norman Mailer, the above statement will be rendered obsolete as long as Ms. Dowd maintains access to pencil and paper...

I was hoping that MoDo's 6 weeks vacation would be a harbinger of something bigger for her, like a job as a manicurist. If she spent the 6 weeks at Betty Ford's, then it is clear that she still has a problem