We know we’re a few days late in telling you this, but just to remind you, The New York Times has decided to allow all readers free access to the NYT Select section. The offer runs through this Sunday and gives you the opportunity to read Select columns, such as Maureen Dowd’s – today she has a great piece about how, after watching little W. fuck up so badly over the past few years, Papa Bush and Co. have decided its time to reign in the stubborn little son of a bitch.

“But once Sonny managed to heedlessly dynamite the Republican majority — as well as the Middle East, the Atlantic alliance and the U.S. Army — then Bush Inc., the family firm that snatched the presidency for W. in 2000, had to step in. Two trusted members of the Bush 41 war council, Mr. Baker and Robert Gates, have been dispatched to discipline the delinquent juvenile and extricate him from the mother of all messes.”

Enjoy Select through the weekend, then it’s back to payin’. They’re like crack dealers. Word has it that the NYT is in developmental the stages of an computerized version that automatically downloads to your laptop every day, without the help of the internets. We have no idea how that, or the internets in general, works, but sounds pretty cool.