The folks at Group News Blog have a remembrance far better than I could write.

It’s been a year since he died, and I miss him.

He was a brilliant polemicist and had an encyclopedic knowledge history, which was why he was spot on in Iraq.

I had always thought that if I were to run for office, I would want him, Paul T. Riddell, and Alexei Sayle to be my speech writers.

This is why I would never be elected dog-catcher in the US. Outraged truth telling does not net one votes.

I miss him a lot.