The last day plus has been a lot. So before too much time passes, we need to remember Cecile Richards, the long-time Planned Parenthood head, who died yesterday at the age of 67. I can't speak too directly to Richards' time as the head of...
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The last member of The Band is gone. Truly the end of an era of rock and roll. Everyone is required to listen to his work on "Chest Fever" on.
I was never the biggest Lynch fan in the world, but he's obviously a gigantic figure in the history of film and I am sure many of you will have.
As we lose our civil rights leaders, we need to note them. Charles Person was not the most famous of them because he made decisions to live a pretty normal life after his initial activism with the Freedom Riders. That's exactly what activism should allow...
Portrait of MEP Jean-Marie LE PEN I don't have an obituary and I wish I had thought of writing one on him, but I think we should all be happy.
One of the most important American writers and activists of the last half-century is gone. Here is perhaps her most famous poem, the 1968 "Ego-Tripping": I was born in the.
It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of Quincy Jones to modern music. He knew everyone going back to a young Clark Terry and Ray Charles before he even used that name. Of course his productions and arrangements are what everyone remembers him for,...
Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead's bassist and probably the best pure musician in the band. He also was deeply committed to exploring other sonic worlds and used his significant.
I am extremely unexcited by a Yankees-Dodgers World Series, but beating the Yankees is all that matters and I know that one of the all time great baseball personalities and.
President Barak Obama Equal Pay Bill Signing East Room It's rare that a single person's fight for justice results in a law being named for them that will be remembered for the entire history of this country. RIP to this legend.
No one is claiming Tim Johnson was a left-wing stalwart, but can you imagine what it would be like to elect a Democrat to the Senate from South Dakota today?.
One of the funnest players in NBA history, a hugely important figure in the growth of African basketball, and one hell of a dominant defensive player. RIP.