Wake Up

“U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, the populist Democrat who was known for his impassioned work on behalf of the underdog, died Friday morning when his plane crashed in frosty woods on Minnesota’s Iron Range.”

Read the sad details here, and commentary here, here, here (just the Mickey Kaus post at the beginning), here, here, and… well, you get the idea. Senator Wellstone’s death was a great loss for American politics and the American people.