From NPR:

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73.

It’s really sad when you rejoice over the death of another. I’m certain there will be many who mourn his death, but I’m happy his vitriol-spewing mouth is going underground. Now, if only we could bury the politics he helped devise.