December 27, 2002
ANNOUNCING THE 2002 MAUREEN DOWD PSYCHOBABBLER OF THE YEAR PRIZE
This first annual Horsefeathers prize is named after the New York Times pundit in recognition of her unique combination of fatuous self-regard, shallowness of knowledge, condescension towards her betters and her grotesquely polemical misuse of psychological terms and ideas. A finer example of what Dr. Johnson called articulate ignorance could not be found. We're certain the many competitors who fell a little short of our winner will continue to strive towards the standard she has set. This years award winner captured the prize for comments he made just before his untimely demise so the award is, regrettably, a posthumous one.

When Samuel Johnson advised Boswell: Clear your mind of cant he was remarking on the ease with which we fill our minds with nonsense and cliches that we never question. Johnson had in mind the social hypocrisies that we all engage in, and while acknowledging the need for such hypocrisy, he cautioned against believing what we may be forced to say. Cant thinking eases the need for genuine critical thought, replacing it with clichid and formulaic notions. While Johnsons counsel holds for all time, even the great Doctor could not have anticipated the cant of our therapeutic age, nor the way we are inundated with it through the mass media. Horsefeathers, taking up Johnsons injunction as our mission, awards Five feathers to the 2002 Psychobabbler of the Year.

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