obituaries
Bo Gritz is dead. One of the largely forgotten figures of the late 20th century, Gritz played a critical role in the development of the paranoid, conspiracy theory driven reality.
Jesse Jackson has died. One of the most important civil rights leaders in the post-King era, Jackson was a complicated man with a complex legacy. He had quite an ability.
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural.
James Dobson is dead. Finally. This awful homophobe made the world a significantly worse place by his living in it. His brand of hate was tremendously influential in the modern.
Alan Simpson has died. The senator from Wyoming was a mean man. He was always a mean man. Like his friend John McCain, meanness became his currency. He will be.
Anita Bryant is dead, a couple of weeks as it turns out, but this was just announced. This terrible person used her fame to oppress others, the worst thing one.
Today, word came out that William Calley died back on April 28. The author of the single most notorious mass murder in the Vietnam War, we can’t look at Calley.
Hey, James Inhofe is dead! By now, you may have more or less forgotten Senator Snowball. After all, the Senate Republican caucus has become so infested with fascists and half-educated.
