Jerry Falwell was found unconscious, and his death is now reported.

According to this article:

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell was found unresponsive late Tuesday morning and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

Dr. Carl Moore, Falwell's physician, said the evangelist had a heart rhythm abnormality. He said Falwell was found without a pulse and never regained consciousness.

Falwell is survived by his wife, Macel, and three children, Jerry, Jonathan and Jeannie.

Because some have asked for this, this is the not particularly incredible and mostly true story of how the Texas Tiger and Khereva met.

If that interests you, then come below the fold with me. If not, hey, there are plenty of meaty election diaries all around us!

When the Republicans heat up the slime machine, there's one tried and true line that nearly always makes Democrats run and hide.

Tax & Spend Liberal.

I've watched elections in which Democratic candidates did amazingly well in the polls, and the more Liberal their platform, the better the people loved them. Until the Republican slime machine cranked up.

"Yer nuthin' but a Tax & Spend Lib'rul!"

And off the candidate would run, desperate to prove that he wasn't. "He?" some of you will ask. I've noticed men doing it. But both sexes do it.

And, I promise you, this line is going to surface again in October and November.

So it's time to stop running.