Another devastating blow to our blogroll

This has been a bad month for fans of good, funny, irreverent writing. This morning we discover that Doghouse Riley, the conscience of Indiana and one of the finest, most wickedly astute writers on the Internet, has suddenly passed away. A writer who should have been paid to air his views on every editorial page in America, who instead contributed his trenchant, wise observations on the blogosphere in his spare time, Doghouse will not be forgotten, and his strong voice will be kept alive by those who remember him. Condolences to the woman he sympathetically and amusingly referred to as "my poor wife"; her own sparks of wit and wisdom live on in his blog archives too. Go read his work again and get a good picture of what we lost.