I exchanged FReepmail with Chris and looked at his website when I came back from overseas. I sent the website url on to my brother the liberal (an avid gardener) who exchanged some email with him.
My brother the liberal is planning to vote for W. I dunno what role, if any, Chris played in that, but I would like to think he did. Chris's decency and rapier wit can't be replaced, and there will be a hole here in FR where he was.
To Chris's friends and family, may God give you the strength for these trying times. God bless you; and may He have mercy on Chris's soul.
He shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary him, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember him.
RIP Chris Van Loon, Trapped In Liberal Hell no longer.
d.o.l.
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