In memory of Margaret Ardussi (June 1, 1941 to Dec. 7, 2004), my late life partner of over 20 years. Blogging is going to be light for a few days. Frank Ifield, “I Remember You” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhMoC6kjMQ Slim Whitman, introduced by Andy Kaufman (who was a TM teacher like Margaret):
Tag Archives: In memory
Remembering my friend, Alan Scherr, murdered in the Mumbai massacre, and explaining how to use the Maharishi Effect to kill hate
Today is my debut at Newsreal, the blog magazine founded by David Horowitz to expose bias in the media and fight totalitarianism in all its forms. My first post there begins as follows: A year ago, on November 26, my friend, Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, were murdered in the restaurant of …
Krauthammer on Kristol and the evolution of marriage
Charles Krauthammer published a lovely appreciation of the late Irving Kristol on Friday, Sept. 25. I have bolded the lines that leapt out at me because of how they apply to the objection of social conservatives that homosexuals should not have marriage equality because marriage should never be re-defined, or evolve: His gloriously unheroic view …
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Thank you, Mary Travers, for the hammer, the bell and the song
Mary Travers, of the Sixties singing trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Sept. 16 of leukemia at the age of 72 — my condolences to her family and loved ones. I hesitated about posting this yesterday because of the “hammer of justice” line — now that I understand why the Left does not make good …
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Tributes on the passing of Norman Borlaug
It may take me awhile to gather up all the links I want to have in this post as a tribute to Norman Borlaug — Iowahawk has the most touching description of Borlaug’s life: Norman Borlaug died Saturday [9/12/09] at 95, leaving a humanitarian legacy equaled by few in history. By some estimates his life’s …
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'Or I'll haunt your sorry ass'
HillBuzz has the most beautiful and inspiring 9/11 post: Eight years is long enough to cry … you work now. Work hard. Make something better or I’ll haunt your sorry ass!
This 9/11
With this post I add my voice to the chorus of patriots who are observing this 9/11 by remembering Al Qaida’s attack on the U.S. at the World Trade Center in New York City, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. I could not see the smoke from …
Obama's tedious Ted Kennedy eulogy compared to the real eloquence that preceded him
If Obama has any sense at all, for the rest of his life he will resent the humiliation of having followed genuinely eloquent and inspiring men as the final eulogist at Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral service on Saturday, August 29, in Boston at The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. If his handlers have …
UPDATED — I think the real cause of death for Billy Mays was obstructive sleep apnea
I know the coroner’s report says that Billy Mays died on June 28 of a heart attack just shy of his fifty-first birthday. I know that the toxicology report released August 7 says that he had used cocaine a few days before his death and that cocaine use exacerbated his hypertensive heart disease and contributed …
Margaret took me to see Merce Cunningham
My late life partner, Margaret Ardussi, was a genius artist in water-based paints and loved opera, ballet and modern dance. In the fall of 1984, shortly after I flew her from Seattle, where she was visiting her parents, to Silver Spring to be my life partner, the love of my life, the most beautiful woman …