If you want…the rest of the story (that’s a Paul Harvey reference; ask your parents) here’s another obituary https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I imagine the guy who wrote that, months or even years ago, upon hearing of Cheney's death, getting to pull it out and upload it, sounding like the meme guy staring in from the window: Yes. Yes... Yes!
@superdave https://bsky.app/profile/rickperlstein.bsky.social/post/3m4sv5rb6rk2x In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.
Here’s the obit TPM had in the vault ready to go. It was written in 2012. It’s pretty interesting in light of Trumpism. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dick-cheney-obituary-1941-2025
Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney's post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University. pic.twitter.com/dUhjlTMC3o— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) November 4, 2025 https://nitter.poast.org/AlanRMacLeod/status/1985699448450916425#m
That tweet above includes the Philippines and a few other nations that I don’t remember us using freedom bombs on. What have I forgotten?
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 The breakthrough, with Francis H.C. Crick, made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. Then he wrote a controversial memoir ... So maybe read this ... https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/student-contributors/century-making-dna-discovery-story A Century in the Making: The DNA Discovery Story Before Watson and Crick built the double helix, DNA spent decades hiding in plain sight: from pus-soaked bandages to X-ray crystals, this is a century-long story of how scientists finally uncovered the blueprint of life.
I’m going to be a downer and point out that Watson was quite a repugnant misogynist and racist. He and Crick pretty much stole the work of Rosalind Franklin, never crediting her during her lifetime for the work she did. I believe Crick later gave her credit, or at least acknowledged that they did her wrong.
Nothing down about it since it's the truth. I didn't know about them not crediting Franklin though I'm not surprised since women scientists rarely got the credit they were due back in the day.
The Nobel committee as I understand it, was not fooled and gave her her due... whichever one was the American was a product of my school, which was incredibly misogynist in their time, so I'd like to think it was a peer group thing, but...
Lenny Wilkins, who was elected to the Hall of Fame as a player AND a coach. I’m sure there are others who have pulled off that feat, but I can’t think of who.
Helps if you're a Celtics fan: Bill Russell, Bill Sharman and Tommy Heinsohn. And some guy named Wooden...
What was it like to watch Larry Bird play? Was he meaner than Jordan? How would he compare from a pure competitor standpoint?
Go down to Russell's Awards and Honors section. It says he was inducted a second time in 2021 as a coach.
I read this great quote about Bird that I wished I'd clipped out of the paper. Bird's arrogance was like a coat of armor, the most basketball arrogant player since Russell. Bird would tell players, from Ewing to Pippin to Shawn Kemp to Reggie Miller, what he was going to do on the next play, and then score on them. One game he scored 40 something points shooting only with his left hand. Very first NBA three-point contest he told all the other entrants they were playing for second place. And he did it without having much in the way of actual athleticism. Yeah, he was as much of a competitor as anyone.
Larry Bird walked into the locker room before the 3pt contest on all-star weekend, having won the previous two years, and said, "Which one of you is finishing second?" Multiple players have said that one of the early games in his career, Boston was down by 1 and called a timeout. When they came onto the court the other team had a white guy guarding him and he looked at the other players and said, "This is disrespectful, there isn't a white guy in the league that can guard me." He was an insane competitor and most players from that era say he was the best trash talker in the league.