Although it's unfortunate for the Democrats, I have to say that Wyoming's rules for replacement of Senator Thomas make sense, or at least more sense than a system under which the governor gets to choose whomever he likes. The random death of a legislator shouldn't...
i see dead people
A toast of Campari, ginger ale and soda to Jerry.He told Christine Amanpour on CNN last week that he'd been praying to God for 20 more years of life so.
When asked, I've always said that if I didn't pass quietly in my sleep at the age of 85, I would want to die -- heroically defending my reputation for.
The feminist Canadian jurist Bertha Wilson passed away last week. Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada (by Pierre Trudeau in 1982, the same year the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was ratified.) See also Pithlord and zuzu. I discussed...
Just my imagination, or are there a lot of people dying lately?The Best and the Brightest is an outstanding book; I haven't yet read War in a Time of Peace,.
1931-2007. He got drunk and fell off a bridge once. Then he presided over the final wreckage of his country. If anyone ever wants evidence of what the two worst.
Breakfast of Champions was the first Vonnegut book I ever read, and I have to say it really messed me up for quite some time when I was 13 years old. For some reason I really identified with the character of Dwayne Hoover, who winds...
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007. Rest in peace. You will be missed.When the last living thinghas died on account of us,how poetical it would beif Earth could say,in a voice floating upperhapsfrom.
Jean Baudrillard did not happen.
Thomas Eagleton, 1929-2007.He would have made rather a better vice-president than Spiro Agnew, but that's damning with faint praise. Without doubt a fine legislator, he played no small part in the effort to restrain executive power after the Vietnam War. As I'm just back from...
Arthur Schlesinger has moved on. Apart from a couple of minor cites from A Thousand Days for a paper I wrote a long time ago, the only Schlesinger I've read.
Another nonagenarian bastard is dead. As head of the French police, Maurice Papon was a Nazi collaborator under the Vichy regime, overseeing the transfer of at least 1500 French Jews.