Fitting that Jesse Helms, a racist, homophobe, and xenophobe, by any measure, but a great lover of his country and his constitutional right to be those things,
died on July 4th. When he retired from the Senate I predicted that, like rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, he and Fidel Castro would die on the same day. Who would have thought that it would have ended up being the very same day as those two giants of American History.
The Castro Death Watch is on!
update: Well, it's July 5th and as far as I can tell Castro is still not dead. So much for my prediction. But the celebrity death trine is complete.
Summer of 2008 Celebrity Death Trine:
- Tim Russert
- George Carlin
- Jesse Helms
Wow. That's a motley crew.
Fare thee well.
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2 comments:
gosh, shtuey, I hope I'm not contaminating your blog. This post just reminded me of a show I watched on CSPAN during my CSPAN addiction- they had Fidel discuss shrub's brain damage as shown in his speeches- where's Fidel when you need him?
lililam, you come by as often as you like.
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