Guess who died in 2022

[Edgy MD]

What's the deal with Gorby? Is there going to be state funeral offered by the country run by a KGB despot trying to unmake his legacy?

[Fman99]

Justin Turner's HR bid. Died on the warning track. Brandon Nimmo is guilty of murdering it and I ain't sorry to say so

[MFS62]

What's the deal with Gorby? Is there going to be state funeral offered by the country run by a KGB despot trying to unmake his legacy?

According to a Reuters report, he will be buried on Sunday and will NOT be given a state funeral.
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[Edgy MD]

A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate should not go out without a chance for him to be honored internationally, if not in Russia, then in Stockholm.

In fact, we can probably convert the CPF headquarters into an appropriate venue in a day or two.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll get Maja on it.

[Frayed Knot]

Hard hitting heavyweight Ernie Shavers - 78

Multiple fighters of his era described him as the hardest puncher they ever faced but he remained a cut below the likes of Ali, Frazier, Holmes and lost to all three during his career.

He was also the first I remember to go with the shaved head look. It was still unusual at the time that I remember an interviewer asking Shaver's wife about it. She, at least initially, hated it adding that she thought his head "looked like a chocolate lemon".

The odd things you remember from 50 years ago.

[Edgy MD]

The original version (and subsequent sequels) of arcade favorite Punch-Out! aka Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! featured an opponent named "Bald Bull," who I always figured was based on Shavers. He always telegraphed when his Sunday punch was coming, but if he even brushed you with it, it was lights out.



Shavers, by the way, also will not be honored with a Russian state funeral.

[kcmets]

Reminds me of The Iron Sheik, who is still alive at the present time.

[G-Fafif]

Barbara Ehrenreich, 81, a writer who advocated tirelessly for the simple concept of fairness.

[G-Fafif]

It was a casual meeting.

Over salmon and field greens, Barbara Ehrenreich was discussing future articles with her editor at Harper’s Magazine. Then, as she recalled, the conversation drifted.

How could anyone survive on minimum wage? She mused. A tenacious journalist should find out.

Her editor, Lewis Lapham, offered a half smile and a single word reply: “You.”

The result was the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” (2001), an undercover account of the indignities, miseries and toil of being a low-wage worker in the United States. It became a best seller and a classic in social justice literature.
Ms. Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Her daughter, Rosa Brooks, said the cause was a stroke.
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Working as a waitress near Key West, Fla., in her reporting for “Nickel and Dimed,” Ms. Ehrenreich quickly found that it took two jobs to make ends meet. After repeating her journalistic experiment in other places as a hotel housekeeper, cleaning lady, nursing home aide and Wal-Mart associate, she still found it nearly impossible to subsist on an average of $7 an hour.

Every job takes skill and intelligence, she concluded, and should be paid accordingly.

One of more than 20 books written by Ms. Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed” bolstered the movement for higher wages just as the consequences of the dot-com bubble snaked through the economy in 2001.

“Many people praised me for my bravery for having done this — to which I could only say: Millions of people do this kind of work every day for their entire lives — haven’t you noticed them?” she said in 2018 in an acceptance speech after receiving the Erasmus Prize, given to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts.
Ms. Ehrenreich noticed those millions throughout a writing career in which she tackled a variety of themes: the myth of the American dream, the labor market, health care, poverty and women’s rights. Her motivation came from a desire to shed light on ordinary people as well as the “overlooked and the forgotten,” her editor, Sara Bershtel, said in an email.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/book ... -dead.html

[MFS62]

She covered the kinds of stories about business' exploitation of workers that the Muckrakers had 100 years earlier.
It was a shame that the same kinds of conditions still existed.
RIP
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[whippoorwill]

Reminds me of The Iron Sheik, who is still alive at the present time.

He sure does!

[Fman99]

The original version (and subsequent sequels) of arcade favorite Punch-Out! aka Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! featured an opponent named "Bald Bull," who I always figured was based on Shavers. He always telegraphed when his Sunday punch was coming, but if he even brushed you with it, it was lights out.



Shavers, by the way, also will not be honored with a Russian state funeral.

Over the course of my lifetime this guy knocked me on my ass more often than anyone or anything that wasn't alcohol.

[G-Fafif]

Longtime CNN anchor (and inspiration for the naming of our first cat Bernie) Bernard Shaw, 82.

[Edgy MD]

Shaw was the only national anchor who refused to call Florida in 2000.

[G-Fafif]

Ramsey Lewis, 87.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ch ... at-age-87/

[MFS62]

Ramsey Lewis, 87.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ch ... at-age-87/

The Ramsey Lewis Trio was the first concert I attended with the person who is now my wife.
It was at Carnegie Hall. (the other act was Mongo Santamaria.)

RIP

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[cal sharpie]

Jean-Luc Godard, New Wave French filmmaker, 91, by way of assisted suicide.

[G-Fafif]

National timewaster Ken Starr, 76.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

In one of my old jobs, I had opportunities to interview many people, including many of some note who came to town for speaking engagements. Some were exactly like what you thought they we like, for good or bad. Ken Starr was one of those people who was very different from what I expected. I guess I thought he'd be somewhat dour and rigid. But he was very friendly, self-effacing and humble. I asked what you get for being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. "Nothing," was the answer.

[Edgy MD]

Mainly got the independent counsel gig based on his acclaim and success bringing down Senator Packwood.

[Gwreck]

In one of my old jobs, I had opportunities to interview many people, including many of some note who came to town for speaking engagements. Some were exactly like what you thought they we like, for good or bad. Ken Starr was one of those people who was very different from what I expected. I guess I thought he'd be somewhat dour and rigid. But he was very friendly, self-effacing and humble. I asked what you get for being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. "Nothing," was the answer.

Of course, that both is and was false. He leveraged his fame into numerous other well-paid jobs, pursuing several questionable and/or distasteful legal theories. And that’s before we even get to the hypocrisy (he actually said it was “unconstitutional” to impeach a President) and incompetence (failing to address sexual violence at Baylor).

There’s a lot more here than him seeming “humble.”

[batmagadanleadoff]

A long time ago, I interviewed Adolf Hitler and what a nice guy he was. He even offered me extra whipped cream to go with my apple strudel and anyone who goes to that trouble has to be a nice guy. I think it's really important for me to say that about Hitler because everything youse might know about Hitler could be so misleading without having the full picture.

[Willets Point]

A long time ago, I interviewed Adolf Hitler and what a nice guy he was. He even offered me extra whipped cream to go with my apple strudel and anyone who goes to that trouble has to be a nice guy. I think it's really important for me to say that about Hitler because everything youse might know about Hitler could be so misleading without having the full picture.

The one good thing you can say about Hitler that you can't say about anyone else is that he killed Hitler.

[MFS62]

Irene Papas - actress -93
Famous for Zorba the Greek
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... greek-dies

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