death
After 51 years in the Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia died this morning at the age of 92. Byrd was literally wheeled out to vote on Obama’s health-care reform bill and has been “in failing health” for about as long as anyone can remember. The Democrat is best known for being a Ku Klux [...]
GOD PUNISHES PHOENIX WITH AMERICA’S DIRTIEST AIR: Mexican Jesus isn’t very happy with the capital of Arizona, is she? “In its annual air-quality report card, the American Lung Association put Phoenix at the top of its list of U.S. cities with the worst year-round dust pollution, as measured by levels of airborne particles that invade [...]
We’ll go back to the politics in the morning. Here’s some Big Star.
The World’s Worst Writer has a Battle Plan for Iran! “I have no idea whether Ahmadinejad merely acts crazy or is crazy. I do know, though, that Iran seems intent on getting nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them… It may be time for Barack Obama, ever the soul of moderation, to borrow a [...]
HOWARD ZINN IS DEAD, TOO: Howard Zinn, the historian and author and one of the last remaining leftists from the Leftists Had Balls era, has died at 87. Cause of death is “whatever old people die of.” (Heart attack. Yikes!) You should read some of his old books, or at least this funny McSweeney’s thing [...]
In his State of the Union Wednesday, Obama will announce a spending freeze for many of America’s domestic programs. As these programs do not include Lost, no one will care. [New York Times] The US is holding a conference at the UN in March in which ten countries will try to figure out how to [...]
JOE BIDEN’S MOM DIES: Joe Biden’s old mom, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, has died at 92. It is Joe’s worst “gaffe” yet. Our condolences to the Bidens. Now everyone go collect from your buddies who bet that Roberta McCain would go first. [The Page]
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTER DEAD AS HELL: Hooray! James von Brunn, The Maryland Monster and celebrated local Nazi artist who shot and killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum last year — only four blocks away from a Wonkette commenter! — has now himself died, in the hospital. Cause of death was MAYBE HIS 89 [...]
Woo-hoo, the Seattle police just cold gunned down a black guy! But not just a regular standing-around black guy, an actual alleged cop killer who is likely the guy — eh, he can’t sue now, right? — okay, the actual cop-killing sonofabitch, totally dead, “shot and killed in South Seattle early this morning by a [...]
Anyone else feel sick to your stomach? We’re going to get this over with, and then blow up the blog. [UPDATE: It's over! The liveblog is completely incoherent, as usual. Pareene also liveblogged it at Gawker. We both quoted Andrew Sullivan at 4:39!]
JOE BIDEN’S MOTORCADE KILLS PEDESTRIAN: In the vice president’s latest “gaffe,” his motorcade, which was not carrying him at the time (so is it really a “motorcade” then?), struck and killed a pedestrian last night at 3 a.m. The big news here is that Joe Biden even has a motorcade. No but seriously that’s awful. [...]
Total body count was 13—with another 30 injured—at Ft. Hood yesterday. The gunman survived after being shot four times. [New York Times] Speaking of the gunman, Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, here is a lengthy biographical portrait. [Washington Post] An important Afghan governor and his militia and their rocket launchers are challenging the legitimacy [...]
