Sad news out of New Jersey today: John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” has died along with his wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86. Nash and Alicia Nash, 82, of Princeton Township, were …
RIP
Late Late Early Early
Here’s a thread for the insomniacs. BB King has died. I’d embed a video, but I’m on my stupid iPad, and it won’t let me. So here’s a link instead, and a photo: Rest in peace, King of Blues. Open thread.
FaithMart (Open Thread)
Televangelist Robert Schuller is dead. As far as TV preachers go, he seemed a cut above the uber-fundamentalist, hellfire-and-brimstone grifters, despite the financial irregularities and bungled succession planning at his so-called Crystal Cathedral. But he was a megachurch pioneer, so he might have some explaining to do to Jesus about that. I don’t have any …
Rest in Peace, Leonard Nimoy: 1931-2015
Here’s singer Pharrell interviewing Nimoy a couple of years ago: Nimoy came up with the “Live long and prosper” salute from a hand gesture he’d seen as a child at the synagogue. Fascinating. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP — Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) …
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On David Carr
Update: see the error correction (in bold) below. Attention conservation notice (h/t Cosma Shalizi): This post may well be inside baseball for folks in and around the media game. Make your reading decision accordingly. I know a lot of people who are both tremendously fortunate and terribly abandoned today. They are the ones who knew well David Carr,who died …
RIP, Mario Cuomo
Dead at age 82. Very well-written op-ed.
RIP, Marion Barry
The Washington Post, company paper in a town where the main industry is politics, has an epic biographical spread for the man it calls “the most powerful local politician of his generation”. Self-labeled “area white gentrifier” Dave Weigel, at Bloomberg Politics, has the shorter: … Anyone who has not lived in D.C. might struggle to …