Look Dowd, there was more wisdom left on Ayn Rand’s editing floor than you’ll muster in a lifetime of “columns.” Yes, we know you hold a special hatred for the Russian Radical and her ethics of individualism, but using Ryan to showcase that contempt one would have thought is beneath even the belly of viper like yourself. Evidently not.
I found the psychological analysis offered by one commenter to your column quite amusing, if not also possibly accurate:
So the Auburn Cobra has a special vial of venom for Paul Ryan — and he is both cruel and cute? How visceral and revealing. ATTENTION UPPER WEST SIDE ECHO CHAMBER: MoDo is projecting her bitterness as a woman — that the men in her life didn’t want — again. He must remind her too much of the Catholic boys at her college (Catholic U) that either weren’t interested in or broke up with her. Not to mention all the other men in her life that decided life is too short to spend the rest of it with her. Go ahead, weaponize your intellect and take it out on Paul Ryan. All your friends think you’re brilliant, too. It’s what you do for a living anyway: menopausal scorn masquerading as highbrow commentary. Tom Ryan, CA