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 someone wrote a few years ago, same difference. Also: LIVEBLOGGING/TWATTING AT 8:30! [Boston Globe]