The votes are in. Bill Shipp hands down winner of both "Zinger of the Week" award and "Paragraph of the Week" award.

From his latest column, the Dean addresses charges by some GOP state legislators trying to depict Democratic House Speaker Terry Coleman and company as "left-wing liberals just like John Kerry:"

"Liberals" are like unicorns among rural Democrats in the Legislature. They don't exist. No white, rural Georgia Democrat in memory, except Sen. Zell Miller, has ever publicly uttered a kind word for Kerry or even approached being liberal. Just about everybody knows that.

Now tell me this (or answer me this some like to say). Has the Dean ever missed the opportunity to zing one when zinging one was appropriate? Not to my knowledge.