The great environmentalist Martin Litton has died. A radical within what was traditionally a pretty conservative Sierra Club, Litton allied with David Brower to lead the fight to save Dinosaur National Monument from the Echo Park Dam in 1956, a key moment in the rise...
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R.A. Montgomery, author of the Choose Your Own Adventure children's book series, has died. It is impossible to overstate how awesome these books were when I was 10 or 11.
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier dies. The world cries. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
Jim Jeffords gave control of the Senate to the Democrats in 2001 when he left the Republican Party. If it didn't permanently eliminate the Republican control that would allow the Bush Administration to do all sorts of horrible things with congressional approval, it forestalled it...
When I was growing up, my Dad watched A LOT of Rockford Files, which means I watched a lot of Rockford Files since the TV was always on. James Garner.
John Le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman as A Most Wanted Man comes close to its release date. I'm excited about it but it's going to be hard to watch.
I suppose there's something very punk about the last surviving original member of The Ramones dying at the ripe young age of 65.
Hope you all aren't too torn up by the demise of Richard Mellon Scaife. Hard to lose such a good and kindly citizen. Also: Richard Mellon Scaife died on July.
Tuco survived that walk through the desert, but he couldn't live forever. Pretty close though. Eli Wallach has died at the age of 98.
The great jazz pianist has died at the age of 85.
The former head of the United Steelworkers of America has died. And reading his obituary, So already choice how much does 5mg cialis cost to after spots body and lithium.
Billy Frank, Jr., the Nisqually fishing rights advocate, has died at the age of 83. Frank was a key figure in pressing Native American fishing claims in Washington during the.