Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 28th, 2010
The longest serving Senator Robert Byrd has died – years after many thought he was already dead.
Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and to build a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money, died at about 3 a.m. Monday, his office said. He was 92.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 18th, 2010
Saramago died on 18 June 2010 at the age of 87. Saramago has been called “the finest Portuguese writer of his generation”, while Fernanda Eberstadt of The New York Times said he was “known almost as much for his unfaltering Communism as for his fiction”. Saramago’s translator, Margaret Jull Costa, paid tribute to him, describing his “wonderful imagination” and calling him “the greatest contemporary Portuguese writer”. Saramago had continued his writing until his death, his most recent publication, Cain, was published in 2009 with an English translation expected in late 2010. Saramago had suffered pneumonia a year before his death. Having been thought to have made a full recovery, he was scheduled to attend the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010. Saramago, described as a “militant atheist”, was outspoken in his political views, having delivered lectures as a Nobel laureate in his later life, once saying the treatment of Palestine by Israel was comparable to The Holocaust.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 5th, 2010
So now he’s dead. And all our scoring is correct.
Posted in Random Crap on Jun 3rd, 2010
… but I did all the legwork of scoring because the dumb-asses as the Washington Post pulled off the ever-difficult alley-OOPsie and reported him dead. Even though he hasn’t… yet.
John Wooden is reported to be in serious and grave condition, and is in the hospital. But you know what? Screw it – I’m not changing it back. The game is scored as if he died, and when he dies, then the world will be right. And, I’ll look like a psychic because I really pulled that shit off.
So, until he dies, the game scoreboard is wrong.
Posted in Scored Deaths on Jun 3rd, 2010
Betty White is the last remaining Golden Girl with the death of Rue McClanahan early this morning.
Rue, who earned an Emmy Award for playing the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series “The Golden Girls”, died at 1:00 AM at home as the result of a stroke.
She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured to cancer support groups on “aging gracefully.” In 2009, she had heart bypass surgery.
Three scores on this one – Charles #2, Danielle #1, and Die For My Benefit.