Maureen Dowd’s August 10th column is Don’t Send In the Clones.

As you leave behind high school to redefine and even reinvent yourself as adult, you need exposure to an array of different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives — not a cordon of clones.

I am not a fan of Maureen Dowd as I used to be, but she can still write an occasional column that reminds me why I used to be a fan.

I think this column is very much in tune with President Obama’s address to which I link in the post Obama: Muslim’s Right To Build A Manhattan Mosque