Jimmy Swaggart is dead. I regret to note that while he was on my obituary list, I did not get to him in time (I am working up a good one on that hypocritical scumbag and extremely brief GOP speaker Bob Livingston though. I've also...
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Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent.
The real shock is that Sly Stone actually lived to 82. And the last 50 years were pretty bad. But my God did he transform music for a few years..
A lot of pretty famous and pretty good people died this week. It's Memorial Day so let's remember them. First, Chuck Rangel. He was actually #8 on my obituary to-write list, but I've been slacking a bit on these and it didn't happen. I didn't...
I had completely forgotten Michael Ledeen existed, but he's dead and we should not mourn. That guy never found a situation where some killing wasn't the answer, whether it was.
Without question, Norm was one of the best characters in network sitcom history. RIP.
Mujica was a real one, perhaps the most successful of the Latin American revolutionaries of the 60s to transition into mainstream government. Former Uruguayan President José Mujica , a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people...
David Horowitz is dead. Bill Donohue, one of the worst living Americans, is sad. Let's remember some of Horowitz's greatest hits: “Obama is an anti-American radical and I’m actually sure.
Alexis Herman was a weak Secretary of Labor. She wasn't really a labor person at all outside of a brief period in the Carter administration, but rather a Democratic insider.
Mario Vargas Llosa had truly horrific politics in the second half of his life and was basically a fascist by the end. But he also is one of the greatest novelists in any language ever. The War of the End of the World is in...
Say what you will about the New York Times, but their obituary section is surpassed by none and while they sometimes miss someone important, they remind us of a lot.
I am not saying Vincent was a saint as baseball commissioner, but Vincent absolutely loved the game of baseball and wanted to see it grow and the owners fired him.