He will be missed.

Today, Fox viewers and WAPO readers got the news many had feared they might hear.

Political analyst and writer Charles Krauthammer will not be returning to Special Report, or to the pages of the Washington Post.

If you write or opine about politics, you know Dr. Krauthammer. Or if you don’t, that is still your loss.

For myself, he was the reason I originally started watching Fox, although I had read some of his columns before, in Time and finally the Washington Post

It just seems so richly apropos to have a licensed psychiatrist analyzing politics.

Life is unfortunately what it is, and even though ones first instinct was to hope he can beat this thing too, you knew from his words that isn’t going to happen.

All we can reasonably hope for is that science will allow him to leave without too much pain.

God speed, Dr. Krauthammer.