Unfortunately, we were hit yesterday with the sad news that a friend of this blog, Kelly Lowe (aka, "skycap" on the above nav bar), had passed away last weekend. As tends to happen in this Internet age, he was a man who I had never met, but from our virtual interactions he always struck me as someone who I would have liked to know. Here's a recent post he wrote on the subject of politeness that I particularly liked, and although I didn't comment on it at the time, I wish now that I had because he hit the nail on the head.