Did anyone else cringe a little when they read Maureen Dowd’s column this morning?

Titled “A Penny For My Thoughts?,” Dowd does a fine job describing how newspaper work is being outsourced to… wait for it… India.

Hmmm, I know I have read something else recently in the news about India. What was it?

Oh yeah, I remember: a horrific terrorist attack which left over 170 dead, gripped the world’s attention for three solid days, and is now unfolding as a standoff between two nuclear armed nations.

Given all this, doesn’t it just feel weird for a major columnist, writing for America’s leading newspaper, in a prime Sunday slot, to point out that an Indian journalist was confused about what the Rose Bowl really is?

Couldn’t that wait a week?

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