Complete Badassedness

The New York Times should be ashamed of itself. Out of eight or ten regular Op-Ed writers, Maureen "Snarkier Than Thou" Dowd is the only woman, and she's on leave right now. Oh, and Barbara Ehrenreich once did a guest stint. But the male domination of the Op-Ed pages at the Times should be a bigger embarrassment to them than it is.

Meanwhile, over at The Nation (my subway reading), about half of the regular column writers, as well as the journal's editor, are women. Katha Pollitt is consistently my favorite -- she's got eloquence, passion, and intelligence surpassed by few writing in the opinion/editorial world. Take her most recent, for example.

Fucking A right, Ms. Pollitt. Testify.