GoogObits Website
All 45 hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts originally published on the dedicated GoogObits website I maintained from November 2003 through January 2005, with one last post in July 2006.
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OopsaDaisy
The New York Times had to issue a rare correction today– Katharine Sergava is not dead.
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GoogObits: Real (Margaret T. Singer, at 82; studied cults, brainwashing)
One thing you often see in the world of obituaries is the difference between the pop and real. A person will be celebrated the world over for a particular contribution to this or that, but in the real world of their chosen profession they are respected and admired for something else altogether, usually something more serious and…
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GoogObits: Hang (Ayatollah Khalkhali, Iran’s ‘Hanging Judge’)
There’s one in every bunch. Funny thing about corrupt jerks– they seem to be everywhere, whether you’re a Western-style “democracy” or a revolutionary-style place like Iran in the early 80s. The more I learn about that place we’re occupying and their neighbors, the more I realize there’s really not a whole lot separating us. Here’s the obituary…