MoDowd: Summers may be right about women:Condi no good at math(good one!)

[DeepModem Mom]

New York Times
Don't Know Much About Algebra
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: January 20, 2005

....She can't do simple equations. She doesn't even know that X times zero equals zero. If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero achievement for Ms. Rice, who helped the president and vice president bamboozle the country into war.

Was Condi out doing figure eights at the ice skating rink when she should have been home learning her figures? She couldn't have spent much time studying classic word problems: If two trains leave Chicago at noon, one going south at 20 miles an hour and one going north at 30 miles an hour, how far will each have gotten by midnight?

Otherwise, she might have realized that if two cars leave the Baghdad airport at noon on the main highway into the capital of Iraq, neither one is going to get there with any living passengers. Our 22 months at war have not added up to that one major highway's being secured....

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Condi may not know Einstein's theory of relativity, but she has a fine grasp of Cheney's theory of moral relativity. Because they're the good guys, they can do anything: dissembling to get into war; flattening Iraqi cities to save them; replacing the Geneva Conventions with unconventional ways of making prisoners talk. The only equation the Bushies know is this one: Might = Right.

It is puzzling that if you add X (no exit strategy) to Y (Why are we there?) you get W²: George Bush's second inauguration....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/opinion/20dowd.html?hp

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. You, Mo. Remember when you wrote articles of inconsequential trivia

that helped implode Gore? Who's sorry now?

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2. I will email with a grand article today E-mail: [e-mail]