I was just surfing the web when I found this page from Spiegel claiming that 'if you can understand German, we, of course, recommend our own colleague Bastian Sick's column. Sick's wit leaves Safire in a trail of dust.'

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372562,00.html

Sick can be found at:

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/0,1518,k-4050,00.html