Last Call: Art Buchwald

Author Art Buchwald, the "Wit of Washington," died of kidney failure the other night.
Via the Washington Post:

Art Buchwald, 81, the newspaper humor columnist for more than a half-century who found new comic material in the issues that come up at the end of life, died of kidney failure last night at his son's home in Washington, his family announced today.

Buchwald, an owlish, cigar-chomping extrovert, zinged the high, mighty and humor-challenged. His column, syndicated to more than 550 newspapers at one point, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982. He also published more than 30 books.

You can find links to a list of remembrances here.

Buchwald's final column, which he insisted be published after his death, is available here.

Rest in peace.