Koppel son dies after a bender

NY Post ^ | 06/01/2010 | JOHN DOYLE, REBECCA ROSENBERG and LUKAS I. ALPERT Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/kop

[iowamark]

The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel was found dead in a Washington Heights apartment under mysterious circumstances yesterday morning after a daylong drinking binge with a man he had just met in a Midtown bar, law-enforcement sources said.

[don-o]

In the absense of any other information

The bad side of an open forum is exactly this mindset. Basically, the poster admits he has no information; then proceeds to draw a conclusion, complete with at least two slanders, out of thin air.

Pathetic. And enemies mine this site for exactly that flavor of swill.

[hennie pennie]

>>> "Nothing more needs to be said. Never met an attorney I liked, respected or trusted. Seems like law school purges them of any vestige of human morality." <<<<

In my view it is the LAW SCHOOLS who are accepting students utterly unsuitable to become attorneys who are at fault. The law schools want to make MONEY, they don't care if the students are psychopaths, intellectually inferior, morally challenged, or if indeed, they have ANY interest in the law.

THAT might be why you keep running across corrupt creeps who belong to the bar.

It is CRIMINAL that law schools unleash these creeps upon the public, particularly when so many naive individuals are SO impressed that somebody is a lawyer.

It's PUTRID.

[hennie pennie]

Also, virtually every profession in America has alcoholics; alcoholism is not created by law schools, and the ONLY reason we are hearing about this alcoholic is because of his father’s fame.

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

But there is something about the lives that these famous people lead - how they become so obsessed with their careers that they completely forget about raising their own children - which almost invariably seems to result in disaster for their families.
 
As an example, the two children which Ronald Reagan made with Nancy Davis grew up to be just utterly worthless human beings.
 
In fact, unless Ron Jr has a bastard child [somewhere, at some point in time], it now looks like Reagan Sr will have no biological grandchildren [Maureen is dead, and both Patty & Ron Jr's wife have barren wombs], so that, at least biologically speaking, the Reagan line is now doomed to vanish into extinction.

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

It is CRIMINAL that law schools unleash these creeps upon the public, particularly when so many naive individuals are SO impressed that somebody is a lawyer.
 
You seem to be assuming [rather naively] that the nihilists who run the law schools do not want to destroy our society.

[hennie pennie]

Where can I find out more about this nihilists who run the law schools?

[hennie pennie]

Ron Reagan is married, isn’t his wife the mother of his children??

[Political Junkie Too]

Brit Hume's son Sandy Hume also committed suicide after a night of binge drinking. He was an alcoholic who fell off the wagon, was arrested for DUI and then killed himself over the shame of it all.

-PJ

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

Ron Jr has no children, and his wife is now approximately 58 or 59 [barren womb].
 
Patti has no children, and she's now 57 [barren womb].
 
Maureen had no children before she died.
 
In a very real sense, the mutual decision of this family, to forego childbearing altogether, is every bit the same as a solitary person's decision to commit self-murder [suicide].
 
You either choose life, or you choose death.
 
There is no middle ground.

[onyx]

Dear Lord. Sad story indeed.

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

There are also a lot of rumors about what Sandy Hume was really up to [and why he was really so petrified about the publicity].
 
Very similar, in fact, to some of the rumors being floated about this Koppel kid.

[LottieDah]

You are correct about famous people being obssessed with their careers and not paying much attention to their families. My sister read Patty Reagan’s book were she said that her parents only had eyes for each other or something to that effect. I knew people like that. They loved their spouses more than they could possible love their own offspring. I feel bad for the Koppels. They can’t even grieve in private.

[hennie pennie]

Thanks for correcting me, I had no idea that Ron didn’t have kids, but can’t recall where I picked up the erroneous idea that he did.

[hennie pennie]

Alcoholism is pretty damnned nasty, hey?

[Osage Orange]

How many you know....?

Obama, and the Clinton's?

[B4Ranch]

Did you ever think that perhaps they decided that the future looks too grim to bring innocent children into it?

[PghBaldy]

He was 40.

[Huebolt]

Yeah, he was 40. Lesson is that drinking can kill if you drink enough. Teenagers often don’t know this. It’s “so far, so good.”

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

Two [related] points:

1) The future is what you make of it, and
 
2) The future belongs to the people who make the children.

So you can either get busy making children, or you can get busy going extinct.
 
Again, the choice is yours: Life, or Death.

[EDINVA]

Maybe you could generalize a little bit? I mean, don’t be shy, just lump all 1+ million of them together.