TPM had a remarkably even-handed obit [link]

Man, he was only my sister-in-law's age.

If you've got to go young (none of you are allowed), suddenly with no knowledge of what's happening to you (which it sounds from the obit is what happened here, so either a massive heart attack or a stroke like the one that killed one of my best friends seems likely) is probably the way you'd want to go. Sympathy to his family, though.

As I said, I feel sorry for his family for losing someone so young.

I would feel differently about Breitbart if he had fought the good fight by revealing the truth, however unpleasant.

I have my lunch omelet! Precisely as described last night.

I'm not defending him in any way. I hated how he twisted the truth and manipulated lies to his own end. I think politics will be better without his influence, but do I think the world is a better place without him? I may have previously, but not anymore. The loss of a human life is the loss of a human life and it changes the fabric of the world.

I am just really raw about this right now

Everyone should go spend some of their lunchtime at the good things tumbler.

My energy is going to go with love to Maria.

I need a good lunch today. no ideas though.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I'm at the point where I think you can vary the 'weight' of your 'soul' or whatever with your actions. I have no reason to think I've done much investment, but some people have, and will be mourned more widely and deeply that I have, and some people have done the converse, and will have the opposite effect when they die.

Not that I believe in souls, really, but it's a convenient package unit for what I mean.

The traditional Jewish response to hearing of a death is "Baruch ha'dayan emet," which means "Blessed is the true judge." I've found that, for me, that's a good way for me to think about a death of someone I disagreed with -- I'm very sad for his family, and anything more about him personally isn't for me to say.

I just made dinner! This slow cooker thing is pretty cool.

I just made dinner! This slow cooker thing is pretty cool.

I love my crockpot. True, I mostly use it to make steel-cut oatmeal.