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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

   
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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

   
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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

   
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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...

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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.

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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"

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2nd Amendment

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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

   
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