R.I.P.

I was ready to wake up this morning and drop another funny on you, but I'm afraid all attempts at lightness or humor fled when I signed on and discovered a true horror: the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. A candidate in the scheduled Jan. 8 parliamentary elections in Pakistan, she served as the first female leader of a Muslim nation from 1988 through 1990, and was a brave advocate for democracy in a region that has known precious little of it. Pakistan weeps, and so should we.