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Dan Folgelberg dies of prostrate cancer. 56 years old.

http://www.danfogelberg.com/news.html

I loved this guy--sappy music and all.

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Charles Krauthammer- I thought he was a looney but, in retrospect compared to the new Right, he had a brain and something resembling integrity.

Don't what the new right is, but the new left scares the hell out of me. 

A Lover Of Death Gets His Wish: Neocon Charles Krauthammer Dead At 68

Fox News contributor, Washington Post columnist and neoconservative thought leader Charles Krauthammer has died of cancer, and there is a mad media rush of establishment eulogies scrambling to canonize him as a great man in the eyes of the public before anyone can step back and take stock of what this man’s legacy actually is.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/a-lover-of-death-gets-his-wish-n...

Caitlin Johnstone Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerilla poet. Utopia prepper.

Gotta get those clicks if you wanna get paid on the internet economy - and it worked. You shared and I clicked on her article.  Outrageousness sells - even to the people who hate you - as the old saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

New Right - Breitbart, InfoWars, etc. - the people getting clicks with outrageous claims.

The Old Right - Charles Krauthammer  

George Will

Harlan Ellison  

Look what the past 40 years did to that guy.   He was one of the greats.  Brother Dave and I used to talk about his stuff for many hours at the cabin.  If there is any there... there... I'd like to think one of us is finally getting answers.   

I especially appreciated these statements in the obit:

He is said to have sent a dead gopher to a publisher and attacked an ABC executive, breaking his pelvis.

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Mr. Ellison attended Ohio State University but left after two years. At one point he punched an English professor who had told him that he did not see any writing talent in him. Thereafter, Mr. Ellison sent copies of his published stories to the professor.

Scrappy little fucker- wasn't he.  He shoulda punched that prof.  Back then, English teachers were primarily spell-checkers and grammarians (which can be done better now by machine).  The Math Department adapted to calculators way better than the E, Dept. has to computers.  Most of my "colleagues" at the 3 Unis were insufferable dullards.  

I started every morning reading Donald Kaul's Over the Coffee column in the Des Moines Register.

He was also influential in popularizing bicycle use early with his RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa).

His life meant something.

Ronald Dellums- a major political voice to come from the Black Panthers in Oakland.

Before I get distracted:  Bonnie, the neighbor lady.  I never really met her, but we would wave as I took my streetside smoke break (usually twilight or dawn) and she appeared NNW 25m on front porch behind her walker.  Meals/wheels/Miriam delivered the grub, and she refused assisted living (off-site) until she fell and broke her femur.  They didn't think she would survive the repair job... and she didn't.  She had time to make peace with her surviving daughters and God.     

Meanwhile... the George Jetson flying car we dreamed about all our lives is finally here... and nobody says a mumblin word.  

RIP, Bonnie.

Don't know if I'd want to trust eight tiny propellors to haul my big ass around, but looks like a fun toy. Might need a nuclear powered battery to make it useful though. Regardless, fun to see what people can devise as technology develops.

On a related note: Here's a picture I found the other day of a much younger me flying gliders with my old man. In truth, I never had the passion about flying that he did, as I much prefered water sports like sailing and windsurfing. That said, I had much more fun just hanging out with him.

Sad that many look back with longing towards a somewhat less asshole level of ruler.

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