RIP Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My congresswoman died last night. She was young -- only 58 -- and had a promising future. She was the first black woman elected to Congress from the not-always-progressive state of Ohio.

And what a lonely, undignified way to go: she passed out after having a ruptured aneurysm behind the wheel of her car.

How awful that her years of public service ended in such a way as to be subjected to ignorant, uninformed comments on cleveland.com suggesting that maybe she'd been drunk or maybe there'd been some kind of cover-up.

She's going to be hard to replace.