Anything can happen.
Catherine Seipp takes a brief visit to Maureenworld, where dwells everyone's favorite 7th-grader, Maureen Dowd. In Maureenworld one gets to write a twice weekly column for the New York Times which fills up space and uses plenty of ink without saying much of anything. Like any snippy 7th grade girl we get lots of one-liners meant to impress, but not a lot of serious content. Maureen is the kind of writer who wants to look good at cocktail parties, rather than spending serious time in the library looking up the subjects about which she writes. It is, after all, much more fun to be popular than to be right. And that is perhaps just the way The New York Times would like it.
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