Obituaries

[JD]

Dick Butkus

[KingRoyal]

Keith Giffen

In accordance with his family's wishes, here's his last Facebook post

[Thad]

Richard Roundtree at 81. Pancreatic cancer.

[Mongrel]

Aw man. :(

[Newbie]

Matthew Perry.

[Thad]

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut most easily described as the guy Gary Sinise played in Apollo 13. He's the one who was scrubbed from the mission due to rubella exposure and then helped figure out how to get them home.

(He did get to go to space on a later mission, Apollo 16.)

[Thad]

Marty Krofft.

[Mongrel]

KISSINGER

Fucking finally, Jesus. Burn in hell you fuckin shitbag beast.

[Büge]

[Büge]

[Thad]

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

He's next to Milosevic now.

[Büge]

[KingRoyal]

Shane McGowan, singer for the Pogues

[Friday]

He's next to Milosevic now.

I don't believe in hell, or an afterlife for that matter, at least how it is popularly thought of. I think maybe it's possible that there's an afterlife, but there's no way it's just the bog standard boring heaven/hell shit. Most likely you just rot in the ground.

I do, however, take some solace in the fact that people like Kissinger and Limbaugh and Stalin and Putin and Trump and and and and and will be remembered the way they absolutely will be remembered. Some day, assuming we make it this far, 500 years from now, some kid will read "Kissinger was a piece of shit fuckhead dickface mass murdering thin-skinned little bitch" in a textbook, only phrased politely. And the section will only be a paragraph long.

Then that same kid will go on to not read about John Brown at all and the information he gets about MLK will be "he really, really loved white people and had no problems with moderates. In fact in all things MLK cautioned that we must do nothing and fight against nothing because it could make someone uncomfortable." Then he'll also read that MLK thought Malcolm X was just the biggest piece of shit in the world and a total doofus idiot.

So it's a mixed bag, I guess.

[Upthorn]

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”

He's next to Milosevic now.

[Mongrel]

He's next to Milosevic now.

I do, however, take some solace in the fact that people like Kissinger and Limbaugh and Stalin and Putin and Trump and and and and and will be remembered the way they absolutely will be remembered.

I mean that's really what matters in the end. There's a lot of folks who slept a lot better last night knowing that an enormous force for evil - one which never stopped working for evil ends, right up to his death - is gone from this world.

So it's a mixed bag, I guess.

In conclusion, America is a land of contrasts.

[Büge]

Some day, assuming we make it this far, 500 years from now, some kid will read "Kissinger was a piece of shit fuckhead dickface mass murdering thin-skinned little bitch" in a textbook, only phrased politely. And the section will only be a paragraph long.

Then that same kid will go on to not read about John Brown at all and the information he gets about MLK will be "he really, really loved white people and had no problems with moderates. In fact in all things MLK cautioned that we must do nothing and fight against nothing because it could make someone uncomfortable." Then he'll also read that MLK thought Malcolm X was just the biggest piece of shit in the world and a total doofus idiot.

Then the kid turns to the camera and we see it's actually a cockroach reading the book!

[Thad]

Sandra Day O’Connor, pathbreaking woman on Supreme Court, dies at 93

[Büge]

tried to sneak past us, huh

[Thad]

Norman Lear, TV Legend, Dies at 101

I'm sure there's a joke in there about how he waited until he could say he outlived Kissinger.

And I'm sure that even at 101 he could have written that joke funnier than I can.