Obits
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Shotgun Golf
There’s nothing better that you can do for someone the day after they died than to consume what they produced. Here’s Hunter S. Thompson’s last column: “Shotgun Golf With Bill Murray“.
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Survivors
The concept of who survives you is pretty intense. Untold cash is spent on insemination and other ways to create those to survive us. Millions of lines of text are devoted to finding mates in order to convince others to create offspring with us. In yesterday’s NYT, David Gonzalez, in the last line of the…
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Crash-Test Dummies
Very funny, well-writtenly wry passages in an obit written yeaterday by Margalit Fox: Samuel Alderson, Crash-Test Dummy Inventor, Dies at 90: In the 1930’s, with traffic fatalities becoming a growing public health concern, manufacturers began to explore the design of safer cars. But the new science of crash testing raised a seemingly intractable problem: to…
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The Fact of Evolution
Here’s an item that touches on two of my passions: good obituaries and the propagation of the theory of evolution. Ernst Mayr, Pioneer in Tracing Geography’s Role in the Origin of Species, Dies at 100 He died as the courage to teach evolution is in doubt across the country. Ernst Mayr was a giant. Here’s…
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My Father
My father passed away last Thursday. I am attending his services now, and I will give the full GoogObits treatment to his obituary, but I wanted to make sure I posted it immediately: Obituary: John J. O’Neil / Addictions counselor and PR man Monday, January 31, 2005By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John J. “Jack” O’Neil,…