Maureen Tweets

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Stage of Fools by Maureen Dowd 02:12AM>I am not feeling at all well today, so I am filing my column by Twitter. As far as I know this is something that has never been done before 02:12AM>so you the reader and I the writer can experience this together. My editor says that it isn’t possible to convey intelligent thought when output 02:13AM>is limited to one hundred forty characters. Tell that to the Japanese poets who describe the mystery of existence within the ‘restrictions’ of 02:13AM>haiku. 02:15AM>If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter. 02:15AM>That would be pretty funny, because there would be no way with which he could deploy his knowledge. 02:16AM>Much like 72 year old maverick John McCain, except Mr. Cranky, unlike my editor, is now twittering up a twizzard to tweak his former rival. 02:19AM>Here's a Shakespeare quote: “He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath,” the Fool told Lear. 02:20AM>Or, I might add, a twittering old fool. I hope Twitter messages aren't protected by some archaic law, because I need to finish this column and get 02:20AM>back to bed. Here's a whole bunch of McCain's Twitterings about budget earmarks. Make up your own jokes, because I'm ill. hack hack. 02:21AM>$2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York. “quick peel me a grape,” McCain twittered. 02:21AM>LOL 02:21AM>$1.7 million for a honey bee factory in Weslaco, Tex. 02:22AM>I guess he's not sweet on that idea. 02:23AM>$1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa. 02:23AM>God, has the man never driven by a pig farm? That smell will turn your stomach inside out like Mickey Rourke in 'the Wrestler'. 02:24AM>Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom. 02:36AM>Threw up green stuff. (Not money). I should not be working today. Okay, just a few more tweets. 02:37AM>$819,000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama. 02:37AM>I don't care for catfish, and I don't know anybody who does. I'll bet Obama doesn't care for catfish either, no matter how 'down home he tries to act. 02:39AM>Catfish are bottom feeders. Maybe Rush likes catfish. 02:40AM>$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi. 02:40AM>I would love to insert a good beaver management joke here, but as I may have mentioned, I AM ILL. 02:44AM>$951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas. 02:44AM>McCain, a septuagenarian who loves Vegas and gambling, must really be against earmarks if he doesn’t want to “sustain” Vegas. 02:44AM>Vegas is for codgers, kids and losers. 02:45AM>$200,000 for a tattoo removal violence program to help gang members shed visible signs of their past. “OH REALLY?” McCain twittered. 02:47AM>Not OH REALLY, John McCain, O'Reilly. LOL. Bada bing. 02:48AM>There were more McCain Twitters that there were earmarks. I could go on and on, but that's enough. 02:49AM>“When do we turn off the spigots?” Senator McCain said in his cri de coeur on the Senate floor. “Haven’t we learned anything?" 02:49AM>'Cri de coeur' is French for a passionate babble. 02:49AM>Even when I'm ill, I try to teach you something new in everything I write. Hack hack hack hack. 02:50AM>And now, I've got to 'glisser mon cul au lit'. ('Drag my ass to bed') 02:53AM>Word count is still low. Here's something else that Shakespeare wrote in 'King Lear'. 02:54AM>“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune often the surfeits of our own behavior - we make guilty of our 02:54AM>You get the general idea. 02:54AM>Hack.