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.
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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.
No one is claiming Tim Johnson was a left-wing stalwart, but can you imagine what it would be like to elect a Democrat to the Senate from South Dakota today? RIP. I've been in Laramie, Wyoming for the last few days and asking around about...
One of the funnest players in NBA history, a hugely important figure in the growth of African basketball, and one hell of a dominant defensive player. RIP.
This one hurts an awful lot. I will have a lot more--A LOT MORE--about Kris tomorrow. Actually about to see Morgan Wade and am wondering if she will talk about.
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I have to admit that I am not into what I call "that British shit," by which I mean TV shows and movies about rich English of the past that so appeal to American white...
GGV- Growing up with that horrible father and all that fame and pressure, I cannot imagine how anyone survived it even semi-functional. Michael sure didn't. Tito seemed to mostly. It's.
I have to go back to an issue that made me mad a few months ago, which was how long it took the New York Times to run an obit.