Today's Maureen Dowd worth reading

... because she hands much of her column over to her conservative brother, Kevin, who says via email,

"We do not live in a secular country. There are all sorts of people of faith that place moral values over personal freedoms. They are not all 'wacky evangelicals.' They are people who don't like Howard Stern piping a hard porn show over the airwaves and wrapping himself in the freedom of the First Amendment. They don't like being told that a young girl does not have to seek her mother's counsel about an abortion. They don't like seeing an eight-month-old fetus having his head punctured and his brains sucked out. They don't like being told the Pledge of Allegiance, a moment of silent prayer and the words 'under God' are offensive to an enlightened few so nobody should be allowed to use them..."

Amen, brother.

UPDATE: Others may want to follow the lead of my friend Alan:

From: Alan
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:09:14 -0600
To: liberties@nytimes.com
Subject: Your brother Kevin

Well, far out. Why don't you alternate your op-ed with Kevin and the rest. That way those many, many of us who have finally lost it with MoDo herself would start reading the column again, in hope of encountering her sibs on occasion.

Happy holidays. Was pretty brave of you to run Blood is Thicker...

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Who knew that MoDo was only the second best writer in her family? Memo to NYT: Why not the best?