Ding, Dong, Falwell's Dead

Perhaps there's something tacky about celebrating someone's death. Perhaps, but I'm doing it anyway.

I remember when Ronald Reagan died. There were eloquent eulogies from conservatives and liberals alike. The New York Times, for instance, said that Reagan was "right on some of the bigger questions of his time," notwithstanding the fact that the Times now opposes some of the answers to those questions as implemented by George W. Bush. Are we obliged to say nice things about the dead, even when they were evil, destructive people while living?