No.

I'm usually of the opinion that Mark Evanier is right about most things, but...

Enron überthief Kenneth Lay died this morning. Matt Drudge, with his usual flair for accuracy, briefly had it up as a suicide, then switched to a heart attack.

Obviously, anyone's death is a tragedy.

No. Maybe I'd feel differently if I hadn't read Pipe Dreams, Robert Bryce's book about the fall of Enron, recently, but I can't see the death of someone who was greedy on a scale beyond your imagination as a tragedy.

To be fair, Mark's next sentence is

Obviously also, it's hard to get too emotional about Mr. Lay, who swindled so many people out of their retirement funds, health insurance and old age money.

I guess I'm just saying that he's willing to be more generous, in a human condition, we-are-all-part-of-one-big-family way, than I am. Probably makes him a better person.