Richard Blackwell, the fashion critic who once called Madonna "The Bare-Bottomed Bore of Babylon," died this Sunday of intestinal complications at the age of 86. He founded the Ten Worst Dressed Women list, was a semi-popular fashion designer, and (literally) wrote the book on fashion disasters.

If life was a Russian novel by Gogol or Dostoevsky, it would come as no surprise that such an acidic tongue would ultimately be silenced by an infection of the bowels. As it is not, let's pay homage to the grandfather of snark with a couple of his more cutting zingers:

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Now that Tony Snow is dead, everybody who made it their jobs to hate him, rebuff him, criticize him, and expose him as a White House shill. Every one is a saint in death!

Last night, it was David Gregory's turn. Here, he delivers a "Remembering Tony Snow" tribute. Quite touching, really. Nevermind that Gregory couldn't stand the guy.

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Rough Industry Holding onto a job was difficult this year, and so was staying alive. The Committee to Protect Journalists announced that 64 journalists in 17 countries died covering the news in 2007, the deadliest year since 1994. Don’t worry, mom—we’re working from home today! [AP]