Bless her pen. Maureen Dowd is at again, this time the context of her column (again) is the shooting incident involving VP Cheney. Here is a sampler from her column.

"As the story of the weekend's bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of the White House, the picture isn't pretty: With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick "I Had Other Priorities in the 60's Than Military Service" Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage. Shouldn't these guys work on weekends until we figure out how to fix Iraq, New Orleans, Medicare and gas prices? "

Her columns used to published in Arabic in al-Sharq al-Awsat. But so much of the edginess is lost in translation.