It is far past time for the New York Times to fire Maureen Dowd. She’s a dinosaur. Absolutely no one likes her work anymore. Ask yourself, who is her latest column supposed to appeal to, and who is it supposed to convince? The people who read the New York Times’ op-ed page are too smart for Dowd’s work, and everyone else is completely disinterested in her pathetic form of snark. She’s mailing it in at this point. When you have a columnist who writes something this predictable and dense, they are not even trying anymore. Find some talent and replace her.