Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007

Not much today, as the massive Civil War project I've been working on still lingers and refuses to be finished. I will take the time, though, to note the passing of Steve Gilliard, a strong voice in the progressive blogosphere who wasn't as prominent as he should've been. He's one of the names over to the right that (as I alluded to last night) needed his link updated. It's been belatedly updated now, but the address change itself was fairly recent, so you can still browse through the archives at the old place. Dig around a while, you'll doubtless find something to both amuse and get your dander up.

As I said, Gilliard was a strong voice, and he cut to the point and didn't appear to have patience with anything less. He was only 41, and though he'd been in the hospital for a while at this point, that's just too young for anybody to leave a full life behind. There are appreciations appearing throughout the leftie bloggerverse, but I'll just quickly link to Kos and Jane at firedoglake, who have a bit more to say about him on a personal level.