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Probably not a household name for many, but certainly is in my household... "Al McKibbon, a bassist who brought a masterly fusion of jazz and Latin music to the George Shearing quintet and other groups in the 1940s and '50s, has died. He was 86."...

Anyone else notice the lack of oomph for something so watershed? The democrats have abandoned the Clinton foreign policy. Only 15 house democrats voted for CAFTA. Bill Clinton was enough of a leader to tells the Unions and industry lobbies "tough" and pursue progressive foreign policy. Some...

Hunter's work inspired Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, among others. His 87th Precinct series, which spans dozens of books over 50 years, is well worth reading. http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=540118 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Evan Hunter, a prolific writer whose gritty Ed McBain...

I couldn't help but wonder who was treating him in Tijuana.... Hackworth dies in Mexico

"James Forman, a civil rights pioneer who helped inspire young people in the 1960s as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died of colon cancer, his son said Tuesday. Forman was 76. ...A Chicago native who grew up in Mississippi, Forman was a principal organizer of the...

Emerson had a beautiful mind that failed him in his closing years. I always find these stories reach something deep in me. How time can find the thing one holds most dear and take it from you, right before your very eyes. Emerson himself was more philosophic: "Strange that the kind Heavens...

http://www.ofcc.net/article1694.html Finnally. Now I can stop scarring all the hopolophobic sheeple when I go out with a pistol strapped in plain view on my leg (only legal way to carry before). I may now be civilized, and tuck it away in my coat, and save the masses from the horror. :D On...