Loan Nguyen, known to bloggers by his pen name Oldman, has died after a short illness this past week at the age of 32. A frequent poster on Blogging of the President 2004, as well as his own blog–which so far–is still up, he was known to bloggers for his exceptional and clear insights, his ability to penetrate economic data, his feel for strategy, and his sense of moral obligation and purpose. More at BOP, and here.
We mourn.
I’m sorry. Geez, only 32. I hope he’s in a better place.
I didn’t know Oldman, but my sincere sympathies go out to those who did, and of course the whole community mourns the loss of a strong activist liberal voice.
I can’t believe he is gone. He had such an articulate voice, such a command of whatever he wrote about.