Umm, I like chardonnay ...

Whatever Lola wants,
Lola gets
And, little man, Lola wants you ...

Really, the media frenzy Maureen Dowd created this year was impressive to behold, and, just in case you thought it was over, journalists everywhere continue to be transfixed. Witness Joel Stein's latest opinion piece, in which he beats himself silly trying to make it up to her. To wit:

The way I see it, perhaps men aren't necessary, but we are very entertaining.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear she was an only child - we could all learn something from her ability to sustain a pout. Part of what makes life in our on-going male dominated culture, to which there is still no end in sight, possible, is our ability to laugh at ourselves, as women as well as as members of the all too human race. Anyone who's dated Michael Douglas and can't laugh about it in retrospect should have a new sense of humour installed at once.