BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Ari

In the wild story of Angela Chao the billionaire who backed her Tesla into a pond and drowned I'm starting to think this was a suicide, as she apparently had a BAC of .23 and called her friend seemingly not to ask how to escape a sinking Tesla but instead to say her goodbyes in an 8 minute long conversation.

Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows

That story is just plumb weird.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

That story is just plumb weird.

I wonder if she literally thought she had no means of escape and was just resigned to her fate. I don't believe I'd be that calm in that situation, and I don't think I'd give up while there was air in the car.

I am also presuming that the drive from guest house to the main house was on private roads, or else she was planning to intentionally drive drunk on public roads to get back to her house.

I also imagine her friends were just as intoxicated as she was, because if I were outside the car, I'd be trying a lot harder to find a way inside. Just plumb weird indeed.

[Miss Shelby]

nevermind someone already posted it

[Stephen Maturin]

In "It's a good thing there's no afterlife featuring iron-dicked rape demons" news, Joe Lieberman died today.

[erimir]

Joe Lieberman, dead.

ETA: Oh... beaten to it.

Anyway, he sucked. But I guess he still wasn't as bad as most Republicans. High praise.

[ChuckF]

McCain
Lieberman
Graham

[erimir]

After reading a number of tweets and such about Lieberman, I finally found a good thing worth mentioning: He voted against confirming Clarence Thomas.

I mean, like I said, he was still better than most Republicans, given that he voted for the ACA even after making it worse. He was perhaps not better than the specific Republican he replaced in the Senate, though.

[LarsMac]

He would have likely been better at VP that Dick Cheney.

[JoeP]

Louis Gossett Jr, first Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies aged 87 | Movies | The Guardian

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Joe Flaherty - Wikipedia

[viscousmemories]

John Sinclair, poet whose imprisonment inspired Ann Arbor’s Hash Bash, dead at 82 - mlive.com

[JoeP]

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 | Peter Higgs | The Guardian

There should be some kind of mass.

[JoeP]

OJ

[-FX-]

He finally got the killer of his ex wife. And Ron Goldman.

[Stephen Maturin]

And he was this close to finding the real killers.

[Crumb]

I guess cancer isn't all bad.

[-FX-]

Originally Posted by Crumb

I guess cancer isn't all bad.

Yeah. People always focus on the negative. They never mention the good things cancer can cause.

[Basset Hound]

A lot of people said "If he wanted to find the real killer, all he had to do is look in the mirror."

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Crumb

I guess cancer isn't all bad.

[-FX-]

The cancer has been found not guilty and is going to look for the real killer

[-FX-]

When they heard the news, all the other cancers celebrated

[Stephen Maturin]

Simpson brought the entire Buffalo Bills offensive line with him to press conferences during the season he broke 2,000 yards. I followed that as a teenager and thought, "That's a good dude, giving credit where credit's due." Years later I loled uncontrollably when he hosted SNL. ("Mandingo 2" is an all-time top 10 SNL sketch.)

And then he became a murdering piece of shit.

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Anyhoo, RIP Robert MacNeil, who won an Emmy for his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings and went on to host/co-host The Robert MacNeil Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS for decades.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Bennett Braun

[seebs]

Saw a post, possibly edited, that claimed to be OJ posting "I did it" to his twitter the day before he died, which... like, if he did, that seems sort of like a smug asshole thing to do.

I did like the person observing that he can finally rest, knowing his wife's killer is dead.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Bennett Braun

Weirdly, some of the best skeptical investigative journalism refuting the satanic panic was done by Cornerstone Magazine, a Christian magazine published by the mildly cultish JPUSA.