Posted on 01/02/2021 4:15:59 PM PST by Rummyfan
Here's my annual New Year take on some of those who left us these last twelve months. As I always say, it's not intended to be a comprehensive list, because, as the late Diana Mosley used to drawl to me with aristocratic ennui, "People die non-stop" - which is very true...
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here come some of the passings I noted, sometimes for newsworthy reasons, sometimes for more personal ones, with more at the links - from various viceroys to not so strong strongmen, marchionesses to mononymous Mexicans, soldiers' sweethearts to socialist princesses:
MIKE ADAMS, not so happy warrior
He "seemed like" a happy warrior, but who knows? It's a miserable, unrelenting, stressful life, as the friends fall away and the colleagues, who were socially distant years before Covid, turn openly hostile. There are teachers who agree with Mike Adams at UNCW and other universities - not a lot, but some - and there are others who don't agree but retain a certain queasiness about the tightening bounds of acceptable opinion ...and they all keep their heads down. So the burthen borne by a man with his head up, such as Adams, is a lonely one, and it can drag you down... If you're doing the heavy lifting on an otherwise abandoned front of the culture war, what you mostly hear, as Mike Adams did, is the silent majority's silence - month in, month out.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
That could be the funniest thing I've ever read!
Even after turning one hundred years old last year, he continued coming to work at Barksdale, determined to stick to his goal of providing meaningful help to at least one veteran every day – even though by then all the veterans were decades younger than him – as was the Air Force. The USAF is 73 years old. A 101-year-old colonel unsurprisingly confused some of the younger lads. He claimed to have held twenty other ranks en route to his final eminence, and people said the air force doesn't have twenty ranks. And then he'd explain that in World War Two there were six grades that no longer exist, and he held three of them
Thanks for posting. I hadn’t heard of many of the people he eulogized, but found it interesting nonetheless.
Someone needs to explain to Mark that a close reading of the George Floyd autopsy shows he died of a fentanyl overdose, not asphyxiation from a restraining knee.
That was my favorite one as well.
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