John Murtha Dead at 77
Jack Murtha, the controversial Congressman and retired Marine colonel, has died. Representative John P. Murtha, the longtime Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, has died at age 77.His aides released a statement saying that he died shortly after 1 p.m. today at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Mr. Murtha had been placed in intensive care last week after ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on February 8, 2010 16:29
James H. Joyner, 1943-2010
My father and namesake, James Harvey Joyner, died yesterday morning from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 66. [caption id="attachment_46716" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="James Joyner and James Joyner Jr., Houston, Texas, Circa 1974"][/caption] He was diagnosed with the degenerative lung disease six years ago and told he likely had three to five years. He was hospitalized with pneumonia three weeks ago and I went ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on January 30, 2010 10:16
George Michael Dead at 70
The sportscaster George Michael has died, following a two-year battle with cancer. Michael, 70, was known nationally for "The George Michael Sports Machine," a syndicated TV show that ran nationwide for 27 years. He was a fixture on TV for more than 25 years in Washington, where he was a sports anchor on NBC's channel 4, producer Matt Glassman said. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 24, 2009 15:05
Chris Henry Dead at 26
Troubled football player Chris Henry has died after a bizarre accident. Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities described as a domestic dispute with his fiancee. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Henry died at 6:36 a.m. Thursday. Henry was 26."It is with great sadness to learn Chris has ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 17, 2009 13:08
Oral Roberts Dead at 91
[caption id="attachment_45073" align="alignright" width="389" caption="In this April 5, 1987 file photo, evangelist Oral Roberts gives a sermon to members of the Church on the Rock, in Rockwall, Texas. Evangelist Oral Roberts, who rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar organization and an Oklahoma university bearing his name, died Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. He was 91. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)"][/caption] Breaking News ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 15, 2009 16:58
Paul Samuelson, Revolutionary Economist, Dead at 94
Paul Samuelson, described in the first sentence of his NYT obit as "the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," died over the weekend at the age of 94. In receiving the Nobel Prize in 1970, Mr. Samuelson was credited with transforming his discipline from one that ruminates about economic issues to one ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on December 14, 2009 08:27
Mike Penner, Transsexual Sportwriter, Dead of Apparent Suicide
Mike Penner, the transsexual sportswriter briefly known as "Christine Daniels" is dead, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mike Penner, the veteran Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made international headlines in 2007 when he announced he was transsexual and began working under the byline "Christine Daniels," has died. Colleagues said today that Penner was found dead at his Los Angeles home and that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 29, 2009 06:33
Colleen Blanchard Schuler, RIP
Our colleague Dave Schuler lost his mother Sunday. My sincere condolences. Dave eulogizes her in brief, moving fashion: I have lost my oldest friend, my first teacher, and my most inspirational life model. My mother has died at 88. One of my core beliefs is that the best way to preserve someone you love who has died in your heart is to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 25, 2009 16:10
Thought of the Day
Jonathan Last calls this NYT obit for Dennis Cole "the saddest thing you'll read today." To think that you can be one minute marrying one of Charlie's Angels and then a few years later dying alone in Ft. Lauderdale while doing cruise ship acts. People have taken faster, deeper dives, of course. But, yes, not the life he'd have imagined in 1978. Naturally, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 24, 2009 10:13
R.I.P., Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol, called the "godfather of neo-conservatism" by some, died today of complications from lung cancer. He was 89. John Podhoretz has written a moving and comprehensive account of Kristol's life and immense influence: Irving, who died today at the age of 89, was the rarest of creatures—a thoroughgoing intellectual who was also a man of action. He was a maker ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 18, 2009 18:55
What’s the Difference, Jed?
Steve Benen and DougJ give NewsBusters' Tim Graham a hard time for noting that the Washington Post obituary for Patrick Swayze, who died overnight from pancreatic cancer, fails to give "Red Dawn" its due, quipping, "There are clearly no fortysomething Reaganites working in the Washington Post newsroom." I was prepared to chide Benen and DJ for failing to get a self-deprecating joke, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 15, 2009 14:33
Christopher Hitchens on Edward Kennedy
Christopher Hitchens is an iconoclast's iconoclast, famously willing to piss on anyone's grave, whether it be Mother Tereasa, Bob Hope, or Teddy Kennedy. Interestingly, this time he smacks down with one hand whilst patting on the back with the other: Sure, the "tragedy" of Chappaquiddick had its necessary moment, but even in those days Barbara Walters was doing her damage control, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 31, 2009 15:09
Teddy Kennedy Dead at 77
Senator Edward M. Kennedy died last night, aged 77, succumbing to brain cancer. Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies (John Broder, NYT) [caption id="attachment_41192" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Doug Mills/The New York Times"][/caption] Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 26, 2009 06:53
Jon & Kate Plus Don Hewitt Equals News?
This morning, Jeff Jarvis passed along Peter Daou's tweet "CBS Early Show Prioritizes Jon & Kate Over Don Hewitt’s Death," which linked this Consider This News video, itself prefaced "This speaks volumes about the state of TV news" My tweeted retort: "Old man dying yesterday not news?" Steven Taylor has some more detailed thoughts, notably that morning news shows have never been ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 20, 2009 14:33
Bob Novak Dead at 78
Conservative columnist and former CNN "Crossfire" host Robert Novak has died at age 78 of cancer, his family says. - CNN Breaking News Chicago Sun Times ("Robert Novak: Innovator's life marked by passion") Most people know the late Sun-Times columnist Robert D. Novak, who died this morning [Tuesday] from complications of a brain tumor, as a journalist. And indeed he was among ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 18, 2009 12:06
