I WROTE A COLUMN FOR

I WROTE A COLUMN FOR THE CSM TODAY: Sometimes, meeting deadlines is like pulling teeth. Sometimes, it flows. Today was a “flow” day. The piece will run Thursday– check it out at their website.
Actually, I’d spent many of the wee hours of the morning polishing various phrases in my half-sleep. So when I sat down at around 8:30 a.m.– still in my cuddly fleece robe; it’s cold again!– I got the whole thing keyboarded in by about 10:20.
I look at it as my very last opportunity to try to turn Dubya back from the madness of this war. It would be nice if I could picture him there in the White House– perhaps cuddled up in his fleece robe against the weather– reading the column with close attention and saying to himself, “Dang it, she’s right!”
Yes… it is kind of hard to imagine. But I must say the only time I’ve been inside the White House– when Brent Scowcroft gave some kind of valiant service award to our friend Ed Hewett, who died soon thereafter of a ghastly cancer– I saw one newspaper, and one newspaper only, sitting on a side-table.
You guessed! It was the CSM!