I quarter no qualms should you wish to quote me. Quintillions of quality quartets quote my quirky quips, queuing in Quahog to quaff quantities of quarts of quince quoolaid.
Maris that is really in poor taste. The stuff you wrote about Plame is fair. Celebrating Novacks death is a tad over the top. We're not talking about a mass murderer here, he's a journalist who *POSSIBLY* commited a treasonous act. Regardless, he is dead now and we should leave it at that. P.S. Folks on BOTH sides of the political spectrum celebrate when a political opponent dies, also folks on both sides honor the dead regardless of their affiliation. Nothing about politics changes people's basic humanity, that's something folks decide for themselves regardless of their affiliation.
Didn't he just die of a brain tumor? Couldn't one possibly give the guy the benefit of the doubt that he might not have been in the best of health the last few years. I ignored gallbladder symptoms for 2 years so I can see him not knowing anything was wrong with him.
The guy was really well connected with people in both parties, and apparently well liked too. He may be the last of the old school writers, who actually goes out and schmoozes people in the know and then reports the facts. Along with his analysis. In the Plame case, he was dialed in to a Clinton administration official near the highest levels of government. While we may be caught up in a polarizing partisan political position (pardon the alliteration) these days, he was able to cross that divide up until he was no longer able. He was so good, he and partner Rowland Evans wrote an insider's newsletter that just about everyone who worked on capital hill or the white house subscribed and read it. I will be pleased that Ted Kennedy is out of the Senate, but I won't be pleased he will have died (soon enough) his way out of office (or pleased he died).
Right, the distinction you make with Kennedy is sort of the point here. In this case Hate the game not the player especially not at the players funeral. This isn't to say people shouldn't be held accountable while alive, or that the negative parts should be glossed over when reviewing their life. I just don't think one should mock the dead right after their death. Even Jerry Falwell.
So you're saying I shouldn't have said that Micheal Jackson's nose had a better than even chance of breaking off if the person giving him mouth-to-mouth pinched it too hard ten minutes after his death was announced?
I've long loathed Jackson and been convinced he was a pedophile. I actually felt like his tortured soul was released. I have made many Jackson jokes over the years, but didn't directly after his death for the reasons I said. I've always regretted it when I've said things about someone after they died. This was true even if they were a world class prick or when I was saying something like that to make a broader point. This is just my personal philosophy I am not trying to tell you how to behave verbally LOL.
due to the fortuitous misspelling of the name Novak in the original post, my google search for news on this event turned up a more interesting Novack death: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8353824
