Author: DXO
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GoogObits: Sister (Rushton Skakel Is Dead at 79; Father of Killer)
Today we’re served up the second death in a row of a guy whose sister married into a royal family and whose death was announced by a lawyer. Patterns.
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GoogObits: Infection (Mohammed al-Fassi, 50; Upset Beverly Hills Over House)
For all of you out there: if you’ve somehow developed of tissue deficiency of the transversus abdominis muscle (which makes up the floor of the inguinal canal), allowing some of your intestines to protrude directly through a defect in the inguinal canal floor, you might want to go check that out professionally, or you may…
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GoogObits: Moments (Ezra Solomon, Who Shaped Finance Theory, Dies at 82)
Often obituaries act like long ribbons that run directly from your newspaper or monitor to a frozen moment in the past, and jolts a re-cognition of that moment.
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GoogObits: Lessons (Murray Pergament, Chain Grew From Paint Stores, 76, Dies)
Today we’re delivered a few capitalist lessons that we instinctively already knew: Paths to economic success disappear over time. One scientific advance can lead to the launch of vastly different and successful product lines. Google moves on. Land is king.
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Accompanist
First publsihed here on Salon Blogs The dominant view of greatness in a capitalist society (and let’s face it, the entire world is a capitalist society at this point) is that of the Triumphant Hero. The individual who overcomes adversity, defeats the elements, and is just plain better than everyone else. But there are other ways to be great. Take Mal Waldron, who…