Who died on July 2, 2007. He was the man behind the late Rittenhouse Review.
There was one blogger (I can’t even remember who) who really hated him. “Just give me time,” Jim would tell me. “I’ll turn him around.”
If he was here, I know he’d have something brilliant yet kind to say about a particular closeted Republican leader. He felt sorry for those who were still in the closet — but he also thought it twisted them into a knot that turned them in to religious fanatics.
He was a very kind person. He always answered personally when I’d email him. I was shocked when he died. And of course, I never met him. I think he was one of the first bloggers I was reading who died. That’s always a strange mental/emotional state to be in.