CAN'T LET THIS PASS WITHOUT A MENTION...

There are very few living legends. There is one fewer on this day. Paul Harvey, dead at 90.

"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. "So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend."

Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his "News and Comment" for ABC Radio Networks.

He became a heartland icon, delivering news and commentary with a distinctive Midwestern flavor. "Stand by for news!" he told his listeners. He was credited with inventing or popularizing terms such as "skyjacker," "Reaganomics" and "guesstimate."

You know how you can hear somebody speak, and you know right away instinctively what they're all about. That familiar, confident voice is one of my earliest memories of "paying attention."

It's a hackneyed old phrase, but appropriate. Today the world is poorer, and Heaven is enriched.