Jesse Helms, and my first link to another blog

Jesse Helms died. As Kurt Vonnegut would say, so it goes. I'm somewhat fond of a Latin phrase whose origins I've never checked: de mortuis nihil nisi bonum. Of the dead [say] nothing but good. I shall therefore say nothing further about Senator Helms.

However, if I were going to say anything, it would be something along the lines of what my friend Ben says over at his blog. If I actually have any readers, I highly recommend Ben's blog to them. He mostly writes about politics, and he bothers to be a bit more informed on the subject than I usually am. In fact, before forming an opinion on a political matter, I usually check Ben's blog to see if he's said anything about it, and then I pretend it was my idea. Go thou and do likewise.