Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq the other day. He was a career soldier who posted a lot of good writing on various blogs - I mostly read him on Obsidian Wings - and I remember when he wrote about deciding to go back to active duty knowing that he'd end up being sent over there. The idea of trying to be practical and apolitical about things like that is... hard for me to understand, but he seemed like a smart and good guy. It's probably thanks to people like him that anything constructive ever gets done under the current management. Anyway, I guess this isn't really sadder than all the other sadness so far, but it sucks badly.