Maureen Dowd

Biography

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.