The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen DowdTags: acceptance
Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames name with a word like "impotent.
Maureen DowdI don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
Maureen DowdMaterialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first American DeBeers store opened on Fifth Avenue in June 2005, protesting the evictions of Bushmen in Botswana to make room for diamond miners and the charges that the company dealt in "blood diamonds" used to finance civil wars in Africa.
Her presence meant nothing to young Hollywood beauties who are pleased to shill for the diamond industry in magazine layouts and personal appearances.
As Steinem stood outside, Lindsay Lohan was inside the party, gushing over the possibility that she could get to wear one of the big rocks.
Asked by reporters about the Bushmen controversy, she shrugged it off: "I don't get involved in any drama.
So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is? We're not talking Guns
Maureen DowdTags: magazines hippies generals rolling-stone 2010 antiwar guns-ammo stanley-mcchrystal war-in-afghanistan-2001
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.
Maureen DowdTags: intelligence jealousy military soldiers 2010 stanley-mcchrystal
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
Maureen DowdTags: afghanistan war-in-afghanistan-2001
McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.
So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses.
Tags: strength weakness military 2010 stanley-mcchrystal backstabbers fuzzy-logic hillary-clinton hurt-feelings united-states-presidents vicious-circle
McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge.
But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change.
Tags: london speeches obama stanley-mcchrystal war-in-afghanistan-2001 coverups friendly-fire insubordination pat-tillman sassing
Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for
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