Rob Borsellino, R.I.P.

An old friend and former newspaper colleague, Rob Borsellino, has died at the age of 58, of ALS. I worked with Rob at the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., for more than eight years. He was smart, passionate and blessed with a surfeit of energy. He once hit another writer with a rolled-up copy of the Wall Street Journal, and I only wish it had been a baseball bat. Of a particularly tiresome editor whose news judgment was dubious, Rob said, "His idea of good journalism is a three-part series on the economy of Estonia." Read his obit in his last newspaper, the Des Moines Register.