933...William Safire Leaves The Planet

Reported widely, William Safire, conservative political columnist and language savant, died today at a hospice.

The reported cause of death is of pancreatic cancer.

His On Language columns ran until two weeks ago.

A Pulitzer Prize winner in '78, Mr. Safire, wrote a semi-weekly political column in the New York Times from 1973 to 2005. He wrote an erudite and opinionated series of articles, ultimately creating a body of work that he described as libertarian conservative.

Say a prayer.

WFDS