Gough Whitlam, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975, has died at age 98. Being a typical navel-gazing American, I didn’t know about him until a “constant reader” who prefers to remain anonymous brought him to my attention. But Prime Minister Whitlam is credited with an amazing list of achievements for …
RIP
Speaking of stupidity (and greatness)…
Of course you knew Rush Limbaugh would say something appalling and crass about the death of Robin Williams. Just as an inflamed, military draft exemption-class ass pustule must ooze pus, Limbaugh must open his yap to let torrents of bile and self-righteousness spew forth. Perhaps, in Limbaugh’s case, the docs removed the inflamed cyst from …
RIP, Robin Williams
Fuck. Dead at 63 from an apparent suicide.
James Garner, RIP
His Wikipedia entry and his Times obit are both worth a read.
Richard Mellon Scaife, Fortunate Son
From the NYTimes: Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh philanthropist and reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, whose support for right-wing causes laid the foundations for America’s modern conservative movement and fueled the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died on Friday at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 82… Mr. Scaife (pronounced Skayf) inherited …
RIP Howard Baker, the Last Honorable Republican
Norman Ornstein, at TNR: “What did the president know and when did he know it?” That phrase, uttered by Republican Senator Howard Baker during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings on June 29, 1973, will forever be associated with Baker, who died Thursday at 88 in Tennessee. While Baker, the vice chair of the committee, was …
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RIP, Chuck Noll
Sad day for Steelers Nation.