Excellent use of the word "great" as meaning "significant" as opposed to (the unlikely) "good" or "magnificent." *grin*

Also, thank you for (accidentally or not) taking a day before posting your snark obit on him. I thought he was about as deplorable as they come (well, Pat Buchanan is still writing...), but I also always admire those who manage to keep the moral high ground while sacking those who would dress their spite and hate in the trappings of morality. It makes for, well, moral high ground, something we're otherwise seeming to lack throughout politics in these days of "payback for your payback for our payback."

Anyhow, he's gone. With luck, his legacy will be institutions that, with him gone, will be of less vitriol and more about discourse on the meaning of morality. Fat chance, but at least a better chance without his fickle and acid tongue.