Gratuitous Weekend Observation - Paging Judith Martin Division

Among the guests at the henfest held at Orgle Manor over the weekend was a certain well-known columnist who shall remain nameless but is often referred to as the Crazy Aunt in the Attic of the Washington Press Corp.

Among the hostesses of same henfest was Missus LMC. At some point in the proceedings, the CAITAOTWPC learned that the LMC himself currently is serving a tour of duty in Bagdad.

Rayther than saying something along the lines of "Oh, I'm sorry - that must be hard for you," or "Best wishes for his safe return," or something of that sort, apparently the CAITAOTWPC instead broke into a screed about what a mistake it was for us to invade in the first place, how we'd killed over 650K Iraqi civilians and although Saddam was a bastard, at least he made the trains run on time. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

As if any further proof were necessary, this struck me as pretty clear evidence that CAITAOTWPC is definitely NQOKD. Regardless of what one's political views may be viz the war, her outbreak was abominably rude. We certainly shan't ask her again.