I've been totally out of the loop all weekend, so the news that Maureen Dowd lifted a passage from Josh Marshall - which she says came word for word somehow via a friend - is a bit shocking.

Michael Calderone reports Josh Marshall was contacted but "wished not to comment."  I wonder if he'd be equally as bashful if Charles Krauthammer (or some other conservative pundit Marshall frequently ridicules as deceitful and dishonest) had appropriated his work in a similar fashion.