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I knew Professor Lash. He was a black, conservative. He was smart, friendly, affable, and very popular. His credentials were beyond reproach. He was an accomplished writer, he made many appearances on FOXNews, and he ran in very big circles.

For those of us who knew him -- this tragedy is incomprehensible. If one were to craft a list of people who would never be involved in this type of tragedy -- his name would be on it.

It is a very sad event for his whole family -- and all of us who knew him. My understanding is, there was not a single sign of any problems with the family. Lash was fiercely devoted to his son, and spent more time with him than most of us get to do with out kids. I don't know that we will ever know what happened.

Obviously, he snapped. Once gone, he could not think rationally. I can only say this -- it is scary that this can happen to a man like Bill Lash.

May he and his son rest in peace. I have only sadness for his wife and the family.

As for the Post -- it is truly unseemly that they would link his death with his service. It is additionally not of the character of the site -- as I used to know it -- for people to assume he Lash was some unknown flunky. That is not the case. He was a star, and I am sure the President knew and had met him.

Obviously, he was not an inner circle advisor -- and his service there was honorable but not high profile. These deaths have no link to that service, and the Post's article shows the depth of its hatred for the Bush administration.