Al Weisel, widely known in the blogosphere as Jon Swift, was the best satirist this side of . . . well, Jonathan Swift. Sadly and unexpectedly, Al left this mortal coil in 2009. Only the good die young, as they say, and he was a mere 46.
Al was a tireless supporter of small blogs like my own and I was honored innumerable times to have him link to my posts, usually so he could skewer someone with a faux conservative wit so sharp that some of his victims didn’t even know that they were being filleted. What that he had lived to see the coming of Donald Trump.
My thoughts turn to Jon during this summing-up time of the year. Here are some excerpts from my favorites, which have a timeless quality as befits great commentary: