In both a feat of linguistic talent, and a hilarious protest of American anti-intellectualism, Maureen Dowd's op-ed column in today's New York Times is written in Latin.  Called by some as a response to the American obsession with parochialism, and its distaste for erudition, the column is attracting attention all over the blogosphere as a sardonic diatribe on the political zeitgeist.

Are we Rome?  Tu betchus!  -- New York Times (Maureen Dowd)