Slate's advice columnist is leaving:

This is my last column for Slate, as I head off to a new incarnation at Yahoo! News, writing under my own name: Margo. It has been a joy and a privilege to spend almost eight years with first-rate readers. Many thanks.

Slate will replace her next week with regular contributor Emily Yoffe, also using the "Dear Prudence" name. The departing Prudie, Margo Howard, is the daughter of the late Ann Landers. Let's hope Yoffe can take down the dumb as gently as Margo did in this last column's first question and answer.