Art Buchwald, a humorist esteemed by readers and other columnists, has passed away at age 81 due to kidney failure.
He spent his last years fighting cancer and chronicling his fight against it; prior to that, he was perhaps America's best-known political commentator. His writing was marked by a sharp yet gentle wit rarely found in commentary today.
Civility, too. His humor could be sharp and perceptive, but was never mean.
Bipartisan, too. Anybody, without regard to political affiliation, was subject to needling.
A Washington Post archive of his columns circa 2004/early 2005 is here.
An obit is here, but it cites "Wikipedia" as a source; as Geo noted so well in November and December, Wikipedia is too easily subject to manipulation to be a credible source of info.
A better obit from The Hollywood Reporter is here.
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