my condolences to Michael Kelly's Wife and young boys. I read his columns as often as he published them and believed he was doing what a good reporter should do; berate politicians, no matter what party, when they deserved it. Peggy Noonan says it best:

The death of Michael Kelly is a sin against the order of the world. He was a young man on his way to becoming a great man. He was going to be one of the great editors of his time, and at the age of 46 he was already one of its great journalists. And one's first thought about him, after saying the obvious--that he wrote like a dream, that he was a great reporter with great eyes, that he was a keen judge of what is news and what should be news--is this. He was an independent man. He had an indignant independence that was beauty to behold. He knew what he thought and why, and he announced it in his columns and essays with wit and anger.

As usual, the scum at Indymedia is beside themselves with glee:

Good riddance to another bad right-wing columnist. Now the Washington Post is going to have to find another right-winger who is willing to serve the interests of the American state.

Now we just need to hook that humvee driver up with Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Sean Hannity, and the rest of those right-wing terrorists of the airwaves.

by Google Truth Jihad 1:37pm Fri Apr 4 '03

Nice, Huh. Go over and read the other comments, the scum have been pounced upon be their own. Just when you think that the cellar floor couldn't be any lower, you're proven wrong again. (Via Glenn Reynolds)