Feeling Dowdy About Dowd

Two days after Maureen Dowd plagiarized Josh Marshall's blog at Talking Points Memo, she took a (forced?) vacation from her biweekly column. Every Wednesday and Sunday were my Maureen days. She's back this week, but I think I'm going to bid farewell to my Irish vixen. So, if I may (ever-so-slightly) paraphrase John Betjemen's "Irish Unionist's Farewell":

[Iron] haired and [iron] hearted
I would ever have you be,
As you were when last we parted
Smiling slow and sad at me.
Oh! the fighting down of passion!
Oh! the century-seeming pain-
Parting in this off-hand fashion
In Dungarvan in the rain.