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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Barney
seal

• Junior Bridgeman
basketballer and billionaire

• Larry Buendorf
saved Gerald Ford from Squeaky Fromme

• Enos Clark
forgotten person

• Joshua Daywalt
forgotten person

• Pete Dewell
rock worker

• Thomas J. Drozdick
forgotten person

• Kevin Drum
blogger, Washington Monthly

• John Feinstein
author, A Season on the Brink

• Simon Fisher-Becker
actor, Doctor Who

• Flo Fox
blind photographer

• Athol Fugard
anti-Apartheid playwright

• Raúl M Grijalva
US Congressman (D-Arizona)

• H Hale Harvey III
abortion hero

• Mark Klein
whistleblower

• Tommy McClendon
forgotten person

• Selma Miriam
feminist restaurateur, Bloodroot

• Joe Nickell
a skeptic's skeptic

• Rick Riff
forgotten person

• Art Schallock
baseballer, New York Yankees

• Maria Grazia Spina
actress, Hercules Against the Mongols

• Marceline “Maman” Tawembi
forgotten person

• Maisie Trollette
drag queen

• Seng Kok “Sam” Ung
Phnom Penh Noodle House

• Charles Whelan
forgotten person

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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• Nearly 100 childhood sexual abuse allegations have emerged against the Mormon church in California

• Amid measles outbreak, Christian school brags about having the worst vaccination rates in Texas

• Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, is indicted for child sex crimes

• San Bernardino pastor indicted for alleged fraud targeting friends

• Illinois pastor charged with disseminating child porn

• "Apostle" is arrested at Miami Airport, charged with fraud

• Former Fort Worth pastor ordered to pay $124M for sexually abusing woman as a child

• Louisiana pastor John Raymond gets 2-year sentence in child cruelty case

• Mississippi pastor accused of sex crimes including rape, unnatural intercourse

• Lawsuit claims defrocked priest sexually abused boy for years at Illinois church

• Former Missouri youth minister pleads guilty in federal court to child pornography charge

• Georgia police charge youth pastor with possession of child sexual abuse materials

• Passenger on flight to Miami kicks flight attendant, swallows rosary beads to protect plane from demonic spirit invading cockpit

• White House faith advisor Paula White says God wants to bless you, but only if you give her $133

• Sexual abuse: New York pastor admits 'sweet spot' for molesting children was between 11 and 15

• Former Iowa priest charged with theft

• Former chaplain at Catholic high school is accused of sexual misconduct with students

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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• Family speaks out after police mutilation of dead homeless man's body

• San Diego cops didn't check for survivors after wreck; woman found dead in her van at the tow yard a month later

• 4 West Memphis police officers suspended with pay amid sexual misconduct allegations

• Former Brevard deputy charged with murder in death of 72-year-old Titusville woman

• Ex-cop, now notoriously crooked mayor of New York City, has backed a secretive NYPD unit ridden with abuses

• Border patrol agent admits telling women to expose breasts

• Upstate NY cop hits 7 parked cars in 3 separate crashes, still faces no charges

• Two men framed by police for 2003 murder are awarded $120m, setting new Chicago record

• Activist punched by Chicago police officer at Columbus statue protest in line for $280,000 settlement

• Massachusetts trooper Terence Kent accused of trading sex for leniency

• Framed by prosecutors 27 years ago, Texas death row inmate has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court

• Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, complaint alleges

• Muslim women sue NYPD, allege excessive force at anti-war protest

• 5th Circuit: No immunity for cop who killed woman by shooting her through her own backyard window

• Former Greenfield police officer recorded teen girls changing in school locker room, complaint says

• Former LASD jailer pleads no contest to sex crimes against inmate

• Detroit PD sued over yet another bogus arrest based on an unverified facial recognition ‘match’

• Massachusetts police lieutenant accused of covering-up OUI for fellow officer

• With 10 deaths so far in 2025, Los Angeles jails continue deadly trend

• Inmate at Allegheny County Jail dies while awaiting arraignment

• Female inmate dies at Marinette County Jail

• ‘Tremendous breach in the standard of care’: Nurse never took now-dead Beltrami County Jail inmate’s vitals because she thought he was ‘faking’ illness, cops say

• Death investigation underway after inmate is found dead in Madison County Jail

• Fulton County Jail inmate dies after being found unresponsive in cell, sheriff’s office says

• Dougherty County Jail inmate found dead in cell, GBI investigating

• Officials identify inmate found dead at Monroe County Jail, determine cause of death

• Man in addiction dies in Philadelphia jail days after arrest

• Man found dead in Dallas County Jail cell about 24 hours after being arrested

• Richmond City Jail inmate found dead

• Traffic stop leads to driver's death in water-filled ditch

• Two killed, two in critical condition, as traffic stop escalates into 118-mph police chase

• Over traffic violation, police chase motorcyclist into fatal wreck

• Over traffic stop, cops chase Texas man to watery death in Lake Ray Hubbard

• Over missing tabs, cops chase perp into four-vehicle wreck killing 3-year-old

• Man was "driving erratically," so cops chase him into fatal wreck at church

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

ARCHIVED LINK: web.archive.org/web/20250304210520/https://www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html

VANISHED LINK: www.army.mil/asianpacificamericans/442.html (now redirects to the main page for army.mil)

BACKGROUND: 442nd Infantry Regiment

SOURCE: businessinsider.com

Published 7/12/2024
SOURCE: military.com

In speaking with more than a dozen Pentagon officials as well as outside experts, what emerged was a landscape where few concrete legal protections exist to prevent an abuse of power by a president, especially if that president chooses to lean on the Insurrection Act, a vaguely worded law originally passed in 1792...

SOURCE: forbes.com

• Rising temperatures are scrambling the base of the ocean food web

• Net increase in temperature-related deaths under climate change in Europe

• World’s critical food crops in danger due to rising temperatures

• Earth's strongest ocean current could slow by 20% as Antarctica Melts

• Unprecedented number of sick, stranded sea lions being found on L.A.-area beaches

• Argentina port city 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm, 13 dead

• Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries

• US Coast Guard Academy censors ‘climate change’ from its curriculum
Not much about climate change makes me giggle, but this did, because it's sooo ridiculous. If there's any branch of government that really needs to understand climate change, it's USCG, and now they won't even mention it.

• The world's strongest ocean current should be getting faster – instead, it is at risk of failing

• Global warming streak brings extreme weather from cyclones to polar freeze

• Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes

• Global sea ice hit record low in February, scientists say

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously

Skijoring, or skikjøring in Norwegian, means “ski driving”, and it originated in Scandinavia, where reindeer pulled skiers for transportation.

Competitive skijoring first started in the Nordic Games in Sweden in 1901, and by 1949 a slower carnival event version was introduced to the United States in Colorado.

Today, the western US largely dominates the sport. Each year, the Skijoring World Championship is held in Whitefish, Montana, and dozens of races happen in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah. Abroad, Switzerland, France, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia all have their hand in the sport, too.

It was once an exhibition sport in the Olympics, but it’s mostly a thrill sport for the people involved. The top teams receive prize money and rodeo belt buckles.

In the midwest, equine skijoring is less common, with skijorers harnessing themselves to one or several dogs instead. Oftentimes, people skijor on cross-country trails with their personal pup for an outing and not a competition.

• Betty Bonney
singer, "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio"

• Carl Dean
Dolly Parton's husband

• Georgia the Wonder Dog
wonder dog

• James Harrison
blood donor extraordinaire

• David Johansen
rock'n'roller, the New York Dolls

• George Lowe
actor, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast

• Rafael Molina
forgotten person

• Selwyn Raab
reporter, New York Times

• Hector Rosario
just another bad cop

• Frank Saucier
baseballer & trivia answer, St Louis Browns

• Ricardo Scofidio
architect, Manhattan’s High Line

• David Strickler
forgotten person

• Jaquai Thompson
2nd Amendment

• Sylvester Turner
Congressman, "Don't mess with Medicaid"

• unnamed, 1 year old
2nd Amendment

• unnamed, 1 year old
2nd Amendment

• unnamed, 3 years old
2nd Amendment

• unnamed, 5 years old
2nd Amendment

• Jack Vettriano
painter, "The Singing Butler"

• Gene Winfield
made Star Trek's shuttlecraft Galileo II

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
Previously dead