Effluent flowing from an International Paper Company Mill into the Androscroggin River, Maine, 1973 David Zwick, architect of the Clean Water Act of 1972, has died. His passage brings a number of thoughts to my mind. First, the success of...
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Billy Graham is dead. Born in 1918 near Charlotte, North Carolina, just a small town at that time, Graham entered into an evangelical conversion experience in 1934 at a revival.
There aren't that many great broadcasters. Most are poor to middling. Dick Enberg was one of the few great ones who define my life of watching sports. So was Keith.
I suppose it's worth mentioning the death of John Anderson. As someone who has thought a good bit about vanity third parties presidential campaigns, largely with pure contempt for them and the people who vote for them, none have made less sense to me than...
Roy Halladay, killed by the hubris of the wealthy to believe they can handle flying machines they cannot handle. One of the 2 or 3 greatest pitchers of the 21st.
Dang. Although he was 91. A great actor. And a great weirdo.
The great Dick Gregory, one of the most amazing living Americans, has died. Gregory was both a pioneering comedian who influenced people such as Richard Pryor and someone who was at the front lines of civil rights and racial justice for decades. More than a...
The great, wonderful, amazing songwriter Rosalie Sorrels has died at the age of 83. I have been a huge fan for a long time. She was almost totally unknown except.
Powers Boothe is dead. Sadly, I guess this means that Cy Tolliver won't be in the film version of Deadwood that may eventually happen, hopefully before all the other actors.
Jonathan Demme has died.
The much beloved host of Turner Classic Movies is dead at the age of 84. Osborne is the kind of person no one can really say anything bad about. TCM.
Mary Tyler Moore has died, at the age of 80. We actually made it through over three weeks of 2017 without a major cultural figure dying. And I guess it's.