THE FATUOUSNESS OF DOWD

She’s off to a great start in the fall. Here’s arguably the most fatuous sentence yet penned by the air-brained columnist: “If all those yuppies can climb Mount Everest, at 29,000 feet, can’t we pay some locals to nab Osama at 14,000 feet?” Yep, she wrote that. Yep, they published it. It’s her critique of the armed forces’ failure so far to capture Osama bin Laden. Does she think it’s funny? Does she think it’s insightful? Does she think it’s helpful? Here’s hoping none of that applies. Wouldn’t you love to see her in a room with special forces troops, risking their lives right now to protect us? Wouldn’t you love to see her tell them that an outdoorsy yuppie could do their job better?