AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
• Bobby Aguilar
in county jail     (archived link)

• John Amos
actor, Good Times     (archived link)

• John Ashton
actor, Beverly Hills Cop     (archived link)

• Edward Atkins
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Sandra Cunnigham
in county jail     (archived link)

• Bob Foster
cartoonist, Myron Moose

• Randall Glass
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Kris Kristofferson
singer, songwriter, actor     (archived link)

• Jamie Langille
forgotten person

• Martin Lee
rock'n'roller, Brotherhood of Man

• Ella Leffland
novelist, Rumors of Peace     (archived link)

• Man
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Dikembe Mutombo
basketballer, activist     (archived link)

• Lawrence Orso
drunk-driving cop     (archived link)

• Pete Rose
baseball's best     (archived link)

• Zacharia Spriggs
in county jail     (archived link)

• Paul Stanley
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Tyler Taffe
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Harmoney Timmer
in county jail     (archived link)

• Ozzie Virgil Sr
first Dominican major leaguer

• Robert Watts
film producer, Star Wars     (archived link)

• Woman in county jail     (archived link)

   
Previously dead

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Says the judge: "It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another."

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• Former minister sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing 2 young children
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• At Good News International Church, hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors
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• Pennsylvanie church leader arrested for repeated sexual assaults on young girl
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• Nearly 40 children in India drown during Hindu festival

• MAGA pastor prays for God to smite Kamala Harris

• Survivors outraged as convicted sex-offender Bishop found living at a church in Los Angeles
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• New York Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors

• Quebec Catholic monks face class actions over decades of alleged sexual abuse

• 11 survivors sue diocese over alleged abuse by priests

• Right-wing pastor claims to have healed a man who almost died from voting Democratic

• Church leader charged with sexual abuse after allegedly giving naked massages to multiple boys

• Former police chaplain accused of raping young child hundreds of times
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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
• John Boos
in county jail     (archived link)

• Melvin Chavez
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Frances Conley
neurosurgeon without penis     (archived link)

• Santino Contreras
shot and killed

• Frank Coppa
squealer     (archived link)

• Paul Cripple
rock'n'roller, Reagan Youth     (archived link)

• Clive Everton
snooker journalist

• Andrea Nicole Garcia
in county jail     (archived link)

• Nick Gravenites
rock'n'roller, music for The Trip     (archived link)

• John Green
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Fredric Jameson
author, Postmodernism     (archived link)

• Minhaj Jamshidi
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Carrie Marie Kwok
shot and killed     (archived link)

• William Lucy
"I am a man"     (archived link)

• Ricardo Martinez Olguin
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Malik Mebane
kid who played football     (archived link)

• Dick Moss
baseball's free agency     (archived link)

• Coby Palmer
activist     (archived link)

• Anthony Rivera
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Jordan Alvin Simon
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Maggie Smith
actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie     (archived link)

• Michael Valentine
accomplice to vehicular mass murder     (archived link)

• Marcellus Williams
probably not guilty

   
Previously dead

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