"Oh, don't worry. I'm not going to use (Harry) Whittington's misery as a way to take a few cheap potshots at lawyers. Like how Rule 10 of the new Lawyer Hunting Law would require stuffed or mounted attorneys to "have a state health department inspection for AIDS, rabies and vermin." Lawyer bashing would be taking the low road and that's not my style. Besides, in the grand scheme of things the world is filled with far bigger dangers than bird hunting with Dick Cheney. Having Ted Kennedy drive you home, for example."

For the rest of Doug Clark's column on veep Dick Cheney's hunting accident, click here; for wise-cracks heard round the nation on the incident, click here, and for great New York Post treatment of incident, click here.

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