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You might as well blame the Beatles for the Monkees or Matt Groening for The Family Guy . But the second accusation is both more interesting and more complicated, especially because the trivialization of politics has long been one of Dowd's obsessions.
The appeal lies partly in the weirdness of his obsessions (scantily clad little girls with penises), "so pungently suggestive of an imagined world," says New York 's Mark Stevens.
“Our mission is to possess the soil,” they said, not to pursue “American” obsessions with industry and money.
Readers familiar with my obsessions may fear that this column is just another attempt to spoil everyone's fun, to replace the beautiful mystery of life with ugly Darwinian clarity.
On Columbine, before I forget: I don't, in general, buy as a sufficient explanation for media obsessions that "it's all about ratings and selling papers," for two reasons.