RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

Or some people just love drugs

Dando: ‘Some people were supposed to take drugs – and one of them was me’

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...terview-rumours-my-demise-autobiography-music

 

I've encountered this model before. I'm not gonna say it's outright wrong, but it isn't to the exclusion of other useful models. One person close to me is in his early 20s - D1 wrestler, well employed, hot gf, loving parents and family - he was never a hard partier by the standards of the guys I surrounded myself with at that age. He would order some party supplies here and there on the internet. He wasn't taking what he thought he was and quickly found himself hopelessly addicted to fentanyl. He's been clean a couple years now, but there were a couple scary years. His experience grew out of youthful restfulness and naivety more than anything else. Anyhow, your post reminded me of this animated short that won an Oscar 20 years ago. https://aeon.co/videos/artistic-gen...rsect-in-this-surreal-oscar-winning-animation

 

Vice-Admiral Sir Jonathan Tod of the Royal Navy, who warned the British government multiple times about a potential Argentinian invasion of the Falklands and was ignored. He was 86.

American chess grandmaster and streamer Daniel Naroditsky. He was 29.

 

He found out that the penguins had started speaking Spanish, didn't he?

 

Jazz creator/drummer Jack DeJohnette

 

THAT explains why he was on the Sirius Satellite radio Real Jazz channel all afternoon. Bummer.

 

Yeah, I found out totally by accident- an RIP video came up on the Recommended Videos when I was listening to him and Gary Peacock and Keith Jarrett.

 

Sybil Fawlty, aka Prunella Scales, at 93 yrs old. I saw her perform in London's West End about 22 years ago.

 

French actor Tchéky Karyo died at 72. Sad. He was one of those actors who played bad guys wonderfully.
I loved him in Nikita, by Luc Besson.

 

This one is gonna disappoint careless readers across the globe. Well, across America, since nobody else would know about former NFL player and broadcaster Bob Trumpy, age 80.

That extra y makes all the difference, doesn’t it?

 

Victor Conte, former BALCO owner and mastermind of the steroid era that saved baseball in the 90s, died today at 75.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...onte-steroids-scandal-dies-balco/86292983007/

 

I’ll shoot up in his honor

 

Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.

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The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player. In his final years, however, Cheney, still a hardline conservative, nevertheless became largely ostracized from his party over his intense criticism of President Donald Trump whom he branded a “coward” and the greatest-ever threat to the republic.

 

It’s probably too long for that two button/struggling to decide which to push meme: but the MAGA internet is gonna struggle between posting copies of all the awful things the left is about to post about Dick and posting awful things about him themselves.

 

I knew that the Capitalists had gotten ahold of Tik Tok when the account that posted daily memes announcing and celebrating the fact that Ronald Reagan is dead got banned.

 

If that account was keeping people engaged with Tik Tok, it would still be online. This sounds more like a case of obeying in advance, which is more insidious.

 

Also a thought I had. Good observation.

 

Can I piss on a post? Fing ghoul

 

Darth Dick did vote for Kamala in 2024.

 

Nothing makes up for this

 

It's not the evil of Forever War but this quasi-quote from Cheney is right up there for me:

"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it's not the basis for a national energy policy."

Deflect, dismiss, and disparage. Sith-lord kung fu. Ben Franklin said "a penny saved is a penny earned," distilling a sentiment dear and foundational to American mythology. Cheney and his marionette strings overturned that, and so much more.

 

Oof

 

You no fool me-- Clarence Thomas shot him in the face!