Fred Hiatt is dead. There must be a way his paper can blame this on Democrats. Googling “Fred Hiatt Lawyers Guns Money” will provide you many lowlights of this hack. Days like today are go
We should remember the wonderful if bizarre career of Dean Stockwell now that he has passed on from the planet. He was great in so much. When he did Quantum Leap, the quality of television was pretty
Lost a real one today: Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black revolutionary’s survival on the run — prove
Well, this sucks: Norm Macdonald, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast members, died today after a nine-y
I often think about W.E.B. DuBois’ lifespan. Born in 1868, he grew up in the possibilities of Reconstruction and Black equality (even as a northerner, it’s not as if Black equality was ach
We lost Ed Asner a couple of days ago. John Nichols reminds us that not only was he an iconic actor, but also a great socialist with a huge heart. A self-proclaimed “old-time lefty,” he proudly em
Bobby Bowden is dead. The winningest coach in elite college football history not to knowingly keep on his defensive coordinator after he discovered said coordinator was raping small boys in the locker
One of the true liberal lions of the last 40 years has died. There were issues that Levin didn’t do the right thing on that got attention here. But for the most part, Levin was a real leader on