Speaking of curses, Maureen Dowd's column addresses the Bush Curse -- and in response to GWB's whining about the "filter" of the news media, she acidly points out, "[I]t isn't the press. It's an administration that comically thinks when it hauls out Dick Cheney to say in his condescending high school principal voice that 2 + 2 = 5, we'll buy it." Yeowch.