Dear Maureen Dowd,

Thanks for being a couple weeks behind on the really frivolous bullshit stories.

Journalists are never supposed to start a piece with a scene in a taxi because it signals either laziness about gathering facts or a tendency to embroider facts.

Nonetheless, I’m going to. David Brooks and I were sharing a cab...

Two and a half sentences, about 50 words in...it's both lazy and embroidered.

Besides Maureen, you both know all you and Brooks did is talk about John Tierney being a dick.