News Obituaries

[MadamSarcastra]

Edith Windsor, Hero Of The Marriage Equality Movement, Dies At 88

 

[Amy SF]

Edith Windsor, Hero Of The Marriage Equality Movement, Dies At 88

 

[Mischief]

Edith Windsor, Hero Of The Marriage Equality Movement, Dies At 88

She lived a very full life, filled with courage and love.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Grant Hart, Husker Du Drummer and Singer, Dead at 56


Frank Vincent, Actor Who Portrayed Dapper Mobsters, Dies Aww, Billy Batts!

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Harry Dean Stanton, longtime character actor, dies at 91 - CNN

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77

He was on the overnight shift in the early morning hours of Sept. 26, 1983, when the computers sounded an alarm, indicating that the U.S. had launched five nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.

After several nerve-jangling minutes, Petrov didn't send the computer warning to his superiors. He checked to see if there had been a computer malfunction.

He had guessed correctly.

Wow, what a story! I think many of us should be thankful this fellow kept his wits about him....

 

[MadamSarcastra]

'Screaming Eagle Of Soul' Charles Bradley Dies At 68

 

[Amy SF]

Hugh Hefner, Playboy Founder, Dies at 91

The old pervert has finally bit the big one.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Hugh Hefner On Early 'Playboy' And Changing America's Values

 

[FortyTwo]

Hefner was a monster. Good riddance.

When I heard Hugh Hefner had died, I wished I believed in hell

 

[Amy SF]

Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96

RIP Monty Hall. I LOVED Let’s Make a Deal. I couldn’t wait to see what was behind Door #3.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Tom Petty is brain dead after cardiac arrest, life support turned off....

Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE)

 

[peacefulveglady]

TOM petty just died..

 

[GingerFoxx]

Tom Petty is brain dead after cardiac arrest, life support turned off....

Tom Petty Found Unconscious in Full Cardiac Arrest (UPDATE)

I am very upset with his passing. Tom Petty is one of my favorites.

 

[peacefulveglady]

Now there are reports he didnt die yet but clinging to life...

 

[Joe]

Now there are reports he didnt die yet but clinging to life...

The Los Angeles Times is saying there is no official confirmation of his death. It is very unclear to me what that means in terms whether he is alive or dead.

 

[Joe]

Hefner was a monster. Good riddance.

I would like to disassociate myself from these comments. No one has to like Hefner, but I think that labelling him as a "monster" is irrational overkill.

When I heard Hugh Hefner had died, I wished I believed in hell

Rene Denfeld has a book called The New Victorians where she presents a great deal of evidence showing that many women are alienated from organized feminism and decline to identify themselves as feminists. The kind of rhetoric found in this article by Julie Bindel is just the type of thing that will further alienate men and women of good will from the feminist movement.

 

[Mischief]

I would like to disassociate myself from these comments. No one has to like Hefner, but I think that labelling him as a "monster" is irrational overkill.


Rene Denfeld has a book called The New Victorians where she presents a great deal of evidence showing that many women are alienated from organized feminism and decline to identify themselves as feminists. The kind of rhetoric found in this article by Julie Bindel is just the type of thing that will further alienate men and women of good will from the feminist movement.

You don't have to identify as a feminist in order to have profound distaste for how Hefner objectified and used women professionally and personally.

 

[silva]

I despised Hefner. Good riddance. Hefner kept women like slaves and made it both profitable and mainstreamed.
I'm so sorry that Tom Petty died. So many to young!

 

[Joe]

You don't have to identify as a feminist in order to have profound distaste for how Hefner objectified and used women professionally and personally.

Do you mean women like Nancy Sinatra and Christy Brinkley, who both appeared in Playboy and praised him after his death?