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Some good advice regarding writing suggests, "Write what you know."

And so The Prom Queen of Sulzberger High holds forth on "super-strivers:"

For some reason, super-strivers have a need to sell what is secretly weakest about themselves, as if they yearn for unmasking. Edwards’s decency and concern for the weak in society — except for his own wife. Bill Clinton’s intellect and love of community — except for his stupidity and destructiveness about Monica. Bush the Younger’s jocular, I’m-in-charge self-confidence — except for turning over his presidency, as no president ever has, to his Veep. Eliot Spitzer’s crusade for truth, justice and the American way — except at home.

But she left out a sentence, which you may now complete in comments, as I'm positive super striver Maureen is too busy inveigling an invite to someone's Nantucket manse for the upcoming Labor Day weekend.

"Maureen Dowd's ____________ -- except __________ ."