Notes From D.R. | Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

Dean Barnett of the Weekly Standard, one of the best writers I have ever had the pleasure to read, passes away at 41. This is a gigantic loss, every bit as big as the losses of Tony Snow and William Buckley. He was–and is–one of the great ones. More from William Kristol, Patrick Ruffini, Jim Geraghty, Hugh Hewitt and Kevin Whalen.

UPDATE: More from the Boston Globe, Kristol and Robert Bluey.

SECOND UPDATE: From the Globe and Jonathan V. Last.