Jim Capozzola passed away tonight. He wrote Rittenhouse Review and back when blogging was just beginning he wrote one of the most important pieces on the DC Press corps. You probably haven’t read it, but if you read Atrios, Markos, Yglesias, etc., on the DC press, Jim is the guy that crystallized in many of our minds what is deeply wrong with that city. Jim was one of the first people to link to me outside of the small bunch of Illinois blogs as I recall. He linked to me back before December of 2002 and was a major source of traffic for me in 2003
We only traded a few e-mails over the years, but he was always funny. His health had been declining and I forgot to spin by as often in the last year, but he was a fantastic and funny writer who I will miss.