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"Once you went to a spa when you felt tense. Now you feel tense going to a spa."

Oooooh! Maureen Dowd goes to some Florida spa, and, I ask you: Was anything ever more ready-made for Stuff White People Like?

But let's listen to Our Maureen:

I wondered if spas were a bit out of date. Shouldn?t they be offering more cutting-edge fare than the usual back rubs, rock-wall basics and lectures on ?The Secret to Perfect Posture? and ?Understanding Chakras?? What about face transplants instead of face cleansing? Social climbing in the Obama era rather than rock-wall climbing? Cure you of a man rather than a manicure?

She agonizes, but she's there, in that cornball outpost in Miami Beach.

I went to a lecture called ?Let Me See Your Tongue?....

We politely draw the curtain...

As at the spa, it was hard to tell if the lack of a crowd signified that tourists just don?t know this ravishingly rococo spot is open or if real austerity abhors faux antiquity.

This ? this ? is the anguish of The Maureen.

Full post as published by Althouse on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).