On the Huffington Post, Nora Ephron has a wickedly smart analysis of Bob Woodward, whom she calls the “dumb blonde of Washington.”

Most of her post isn’t so nasty, but it is, in its way, quite devastating.

(And not just because she agrees with me that the reason Woodward trashed Patrick Fitzgerald in public was to pressure Fitzgerald into cooperating with him.)

You know, if I were a newspaper editor—or, say, editor of a national magazine devoted to cuture and politics—I might just think about signing up Nora Ephron as a columnist. She covers the same turf as Maureen Dowd, and to my mind, she’s a better writer….