CityBeat media columnist (and blogger about L.A.) Cathy Seipp is taking on an added blog gig -- she will opine from the right once a month about New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for The Inkwell, a new blog on the conservative side of the culture wars from the Independent Women's Forum. Who they? Their site explains: "IWF serves as a strategic tool to defeat the hegemony of the Left on so-called 'women's issues'..." Inkwell's first entry calls Dowd "the most annoying columnist in America," so it shouldn't be any mystery what those pieces will be like.
And who might "skippy" be?
You mentioned "nobodies"--it would be nice to link a real somebody to the fake email you left.
Posted by: joseph at December 16, 2003 09:09 AMStalking is the sincerest form of flattery. Maybe the Krugman and Dowd heel-nippers should have a convention, to commiserate over the vast left wing media that obsesses over stained blue dresses but doesn't blink at $61m in overcharges by Halliburton.
Posted by: David the Obscure at December 16, 2003 09:20 AMI'm not fussy for that kind of crowd or kind of thinking myself, but I'm far less fussy for people who imagine that at an interactive weblog they can take advantage of the cloak of anonymity to bichslap counterfeminists as "nutball nobodies". Maureen Dowd and Cathy Siepp both link their ideas and opinions to their own true names, which makes them both exemplars of feminine courage. Not "skippy" here, though. It defeats this particular medium's most important attribute--interactivity--when you have no true persona of your own, and only use other sites to snipe at other people.
Posted by: joseph at December 16, 2003 11:09 AMYeah! Thanks, Joseph. Also, what's the world coming to when a person can't take a job as a coldhearted hired gun without everyone getting on her CASE?
Posted by: Cathy Seipp at December 16, 2003 11:16 AMTaking on the "hegemony of the Left" sounds a bit like a misplaced persecution complex (the culture war is over, be a good winner already); but even if the target's unworthy, Ms. Seipp's characteristic humor should prevail.
Posted by: David the Obscure at December 16, 2003 12:07 PM

One can only assume how much trouble this will make for Maureen Dowd. Note the Lynne Cheney endorsement on the home page of this nutball network of nobodies.
Posted by: skippy at December 15, 2003 10:48 PM