RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

Well...we already have @Auriaprottu and suffer every Atlanta United match so when the NHL comes back let us know when the Wild experience a win.

 

I assume that if the NHL cancels 2020 then the mighty St. Louis Blues repeat as champions, right?

 

I think the Minnesota Wild Men should get 1st dibs because their fans desperately need the love!

 

Joseph Lowery, 98.
Consequential.

 

Tom Coburn, former OK senator

Former Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor who earned a reputation as a conservative political maverick as he railed against federal earmarks and subsidies for the rich, has died https://t.co/TNd4ucHaiD

— POLITICO (@politico) March 28, 2020

 

No, the Stanley Cup does not transfer to the next season, however, the Blues have been awarded their 32nd consecutive Lady Douchebag Trophy for the 2019-20 season.

 

Interesting guy. Super conservative and I disagreed with him a lot, but he was old school in the way he would form relationships and work across the aisle on areas that presented bipartisan possibilities. He and Obama were friends and collaborators on a few things.

 

Here we go, folks. Its going to be a bump[y ride.

Country music star Joe Diffie dies of complications from coronavirus

Two days before his death, Diffie released a statement saying he had tested positive for coronavirus and was receiving treatment.

 

I have no problem with Tom Coburn. I will take any politician who works across the aisle. Any voter too. Anybody who believes in this country as a whole, instead of thriving on anger.

And yes, I do get very angry at Trump. Tolerance of intolerance is no virtue, I will not apologize for that.

 

Krzysztof Penderecki

https://pitchfork.com/news/krzysztof-penderecki-influential-composer-dead-at-86/

 

Ain't no sunshine when he's gone.... R.I.P. Bill

 

I always think of Kaline and Willie Horton together, although Kaline was 8 years older. Al made it to 85 and Willie is still around, so they have had nice runs.

 

Linda Tripp, 70, from pancreatic

Linda Tripp is dead at age 70
(diagnosed less than a week ago with pancreatic cancer)https://t.co/jawPUtGCQU via @MailOnline

— Heidi Przybyla 🌺 (@HeidiReports) April 8, 2020

 

Pancreatic is no joke. I could have sworn Linda Tripp was pushing 250 lbs at the height of her notoriety.

 

Whistlwblower? Huh, that's a new one.

 

She whistled to keep the other dogs off her Chuck Wagon, lol

 

Grew up with this song and it never gets old. R.I.P. John Prine, thank you for all you've given us.

 

Mad Magazine legend Mort Drucker, 91

RIP, Mort Drucker, whose caricatures revealed as much as they ridiculed. In your memory, we will continue to satirize even in dark times, and laugh like Idiots while doing it. pic.twitter.com/AUWEaIMWUe

— MAD Magazine (@MADmagazine) April 9, 2020

 

Formula 1 champion Sir Stirling Moss. From when iron men drove iron cars and few lived so long as Sir Stirling.

 

I read his book when I was about 11 or 12, and it stimulated a brief but intense fascination with F1 in the Jim Clark/Lotus era... RIP...

 

I ran across a convention of McLAren owners a few years ago. As I learned, of a couple hundred attendees, I was the only one who actually met Bruce McLaren. It was in the pits at Road America in 1968 or 1969. I was 7 or 8. Either he or Denny Hulme sat me in the main seat of an M8B...

 

and another...

 

Crap.