The Slate editor who created Today's Papers, died in a scuba accident Saturday in southern California. TP has become an indispensable shortcut to the work of the five major US newspapers that I read almost every day, and Shuger was the one who set the tone. He stopped writing it last fall to cover the "Terror War" for Slate, but it's still a must-read. Shuger had a lot of good work left to do. I hope someone picks it up.

An aside: Slate's insistence on using Microsoft technology like Active Server Pages (Microsoft owns Slate) means that, until they put the link above in Shuger's tribute, I have never been able to find a URL that would simply show you the current installment instead of one tied to a specific day. I'm glad to have it, and I'm putting it in the "Links" section of the site (replacing Slate itself), but it should be on Slate's front page. It's a bad URL, it's a bad policy, and the feature deserves better, even without Shuger. Damn.