Robert Adler, inventor of the modern remote control, has died.Had he not invented it, I would be less fat and better read.
i see dead people
Alejandro Finisterre, leftist opponent of Franco, inventor of foosball, and a pioneer of airplane hijacking, died last week. Via Randy and Trend.
I wonder if this sentence could have been better constructed...A ninth-grade dropout, she rose quickly from life as a small-town wife and mother to a highly visible, and sparsely clad,.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006. She was so John Bolton before John Bolton was even John Bolton.UPDATE: Yes, this is a bit flip, but there's a point. During the 1980s, I only knew Jeane Kirkpatrick as Bill the Cat's girlfriend; I didn't really understand the jokes until...
Looks like four. I didn't really think very much about Dennis Weaver before I saw Duel last year, my main knowledge of him coming from his role as Sam McCloud..