Z Man?

Not to post gossip, but even unsourced I suspect that this is legit. There hasn't been a Z-man post today, which is unusual, because on Friday's he usually posts pretty early; around 8 AM. I shrugged and figured that he was just a little late, and decided to look at Anonymous Conservative's blog instead, since he's a pretty good news aggregator if you can get past some of his strange monomanias. One of the very first things on his blog for today was a link to RAMZPAUL's twitter post saying that the Z-man had been found dead of natural causes this morning!

I still would like to get a better source than just a twitter account of an online friend/correspondent of the Z-man, but I believe he's probably right, and I doubt he'd even post that if he wasn't.

Pretty sad. He wasn't even 60, I don't think. He had been on my reading list pretty much daily for many years. While I didn't always agree with everything that he said, he was pretty sharp, and pretty articulate, and often said things in a way that I felt were very shareable. Not that I didn't already understand the concept, but I sometimes struggled to articulate it. The Z-man was pithy and insightful, so he filled in a gap of something that I couldn't do well myself. And sometimes, of course, he connected dots in a way that I hadn't ever thought of.

Of course I didn't know him. I don't even know his name, and I only divined his age from a few posts he made on it, and I heard a rumor that he lived in West Virginia, or had recently relocated there from the Baltimore area. (Maybe he still worked in Baltimore and commuted or worked remotely. Don't even know.)

Either way, no doubt he'll be missed by his friends and family, and his content will certainly be missed by many, including me, at least some of my sons and my son-in-law who I know also read him regularly.

UPDATE: Confirmed separately by John Derbyshire, who oughtta know, given that the Z-man hosted his show until just a few weeks ago.

Back in town after a longish trip, so I'll get caught up at work and see what in the world I actually want to blog about after that. Haven't read much lately, so not that, I'm afraid.