JOSH CHAFETZ IS BACK, and has a new installment of the immutable laws of Dowd. Don’t miss it.

UPDATE: Okay, I can’t resist — this Fisking is worth quoting:

The showcase line in the column was “We used to worry about a military coup against civilian authority. Now we worry about a civilian coup against military authority.” Maureen was very proud of this line. The NYT online even used it as the tag line for her column. But, um, what the hell does it mean? First, I hate to bring up a pesky little thing like the Constitution — especially when dealing with a legal eagle like Dowd — but Article II, section 2 does say, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” In other words, the military is meant to be under civilian control. The idea of a civilian coup against military authority is completely incoherent in a democratic state.

Like a lot of Dowd’s columns.