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While on my break this afternoon, I checked my email via my phone and saw a breaking news alert. I half-jokingly said aloud, “Breaking news? Uh oh, who died?” Then when I opened the email, it told me that actor Paul Newman passed away. And then I felt sorta bad.
I couldn’t tell you the last [...]

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Yesterday, transgender man Thomas Beatie gave birth to a baby girl. Early this morning, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms died. This further proves my (until now) unwritten theory that for every new life that comes into the world, one must go. In this case, it seems like sweet poetic justice.

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Photo: Point-Shoot-Edit (flickr)
Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.
Upon hearing the news this morning about George Carlin’s passing, “shit” and “fuck” — two of the seven dirty words you can’t say on television — seem the most appropriate right now.
Damn.

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As I prepared for a trip out west tomorrow, I got a reminder of my last trip today. Mom called me at the office this afternoon to tell me that my great-grandmother, whose grave illness was the catalyst for our trip down to Puerto Rico last month, passed away this morning. She made it to [...]

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Mayor of a French village tells residents not to die there, else they face punishment. Their cemetery is full.

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Michael called me when I was on my way home from work to alert me to this:
NEW YORK (AP) — Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage [...]

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Alice Ghostley — an actress who, as Bernice Clifton on “Designing Women,” made me bust a gut laughing — passed away yesterday. The video cip above shows one of her memorable performances.
On a more personal note, Jonathan, a friend who made me bust a gut in person, lost his battle with leukemia this week. Funeral [...]

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Entertainment magnate Merv Griffin passed away this weekend. He is known for his eponymous talk show, which ran off and on between 1962 and 1986; and creating two of America’s most popular and longest running game shows, “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!”
(For some reason, I thought he already passed.)

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Another icon from my childhood is gone. Brian just tipped me off that Don Herbert — Mr. Wizard — passed away today.
Growing up in New York, I didn’t get cable television until 1990, but when I went to visit my dad in the D.C. area in those years, I took every advantage to watch shows [...]

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The stone is cast

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