I am not saying Vincent was a saint as baseball commissioner, but Vincent absolutely loved the game of baseball and wanted to see it grow and the owners fired him for not backing them on their desired labor stoppage. Then the owners got what they...
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Marianne Faithfull at the Women's World Awards 2009 in Vienna, Austria Absolute stone cold legend. Also, she sang the best version of "Working Class Hero" ever recorded, which wasn't something.
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.
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 repeat today.
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.
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 that Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Unfortunately, he had children.
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.
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 resources to support a lot of difficult new music in the classical world. He didn't...
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.