Senator Frank Lautenberg, 1924-2013, Rest in peace

Dammit

Some people should get a pass and be allowed to live forever.

Harvey Korman was one of them.

Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81

Rest in peace, Mr. Korman.

We miss you already.

We always will.

Breaking news

With thanks to friend, Bob.

Quote of the day

" I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world."

--Roger Ebert, June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013,  American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. The Chicago Sun-Times said he "was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic,"[10] and Forbes described him as "the most powerful pundit in America".[11] He was both the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, and the first to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ebert was primarily known for his film review column (in the Chicago Sun-Times beginning in 1967, and later online)[12] and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years.

May he rightly rest in peace.

Links:

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/

Roger Ebert - Wikipedia

Rest in peace, George McGovern

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
--George McGovern

Thank you, Senator McGovern, for your work and diligence and for speaking up and out. We need more--many more--like you.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_mcgovern

http://www.mcgoverncenter.com/george.htm

Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012) Rest in peace

Rest in peace Levon Helm

So talented

If only she believed--truly believed--what she sang. At least in some of her songs. Like this one.

Whitney Houston, rest in peace

I try to not post the same things as others, frankly, and hope I'm virtually always successful with that but today, on the death of Whitney Houston, I'm going to make an exception. Indeed, rest in peace, Whitney Houston. Rightly or wrongly, I think people will always blame Bobby Brown, in full or in part, for her addictions and/or her death. I think we all saw her inner and outer beauty, and regret so much how lost she seemed to get in life, for whatever reasons. Links: http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pop-vocal-legend-whitney-houston-found-dead-034610653.html; http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/blood-sweat-dishevelment-whitney-houston-tumultuous-final-days-144148765.html; http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/whitney-houston-performed-greatest-national-anthem-sports-history-020851426.html; http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/hip-hop-media-training/bobby-brown-grieves-stage-over-whitney-houston-death-070856684.html; http://awards.music.yahoo.com/news/418-pre-grammy-gala-celebrates-whitney-houstons-life; http://music.yahoo.com/photos/r-i-p-whitney-houston-1963-2012-1329021975-slideshow/; http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/12/us-usa-whitneyhouston-idUSTRE81B01020120212

The Top Ten Quotes of the Year

"Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School, has released his sixth annual list of the most notable quotations of the year:" 1. "We are the 99 percent." — slogan of Occupy movement. 2. "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for." — U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, speaking in Andover, Mass., in August. 3. "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress." — Billionaire Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed on Aug. 15. 4. "I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." — Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman in an Aug. 18 tweet. 5. "Oops." — Presidential candidate Rick Perry after unsuccessfully attempting to remember the third federal agency he would eliminate during a Nov. 9 debate. 6. "When they ask me, 'Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?' I'm going to say, 'You know, I don't know. Do you know?'" — Then-presidential candidate Herman Cain in an interview by Christian Broadcasting Network on Oct. 7. 7. "I am on a drug. It's called 'Charlie Sheen.' It's not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body." — Actor Charlie Sheen in a February interview with ABC News. 8. "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' last words on Oct. 5, as reported by his sister Mona Simpson in her eulogy. 9. "I can't say with certitude." — Then-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner on June 1 when he was asked whether a lewd photograph was in fact him. 10. "Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package." — Lawyer Gloria Allred on Nov. 7 discussing Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of her client. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/99-percent-chosen-years-top-quote-171947746.html

Rest in peace Joe Simon, creator of "Captain America"

The President's eulogy for Senator Ted Kennedy

For anyone who would say--or has said--anything disparaging about Ted Kennedy, they should watch this.

It should bring us together as a country and as individuals.

It won't. But it should.

Link to 2nd half of eulogy--don't miss this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnSc4vPwDU