CATHY SEIPP WRITES that Maureen Dowd is being seriously upstaged by Barbara Ehrenreich:

I don’t agree with Barbara Ehrenreich, who’s a guest columnist on the New York Times op-ed pages through July, any more than I agree with Dowd. But Ehrenreich is an elegant writer who respects her readers’ intelligence enough to realize that cute alliteration, tossed-in pop culture references and a few phone calls to friends do not an op-ed make.

Ouch.