Former Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar died on March 29th after a long battle with abdominal cancer. He was 79. The textile magnate shared eight years of government with Brazil's first working-class president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Christopher Hitchens - Dec 15, 2011
A great thinker has passed. Some of his better thoughts:
ON RELIGION: “ To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON HYPOCRITES: “Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON THE AMERICAN LEFT: “One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.” —Frontpagemag.com, 2004
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ON RELIGION: “ To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON HYPOCRITES: “Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.” —God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
ON THE AMERICAN LEFT: “One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.” —Frontpagemag.com, 2004
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Eleanor Mondale - Sept 17, 2011
Eleanor began her broadcasting career in the late 1980s as a radio D.J. in Chicago. In 1989, she became an entertainment reporter at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. She later worked as a D.J. at WLOL-FM, a Minneapolis radio station, and as an on-air personality at the E! Online cable channel, ESPN and “This Morning” on CBS.
She was only 51, but she had a full life. Over the years, she was romantically linked to various celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Zevon and Don Henley, as well as the financier Ronald O. Perelman. She was married three times, first to Keith Van Horne, a former tackle for the Chicago Bears, in 1988; then to Greg Malban, a D.J. known as Greg Thunder, in 1991. In 2005 she married Chan Poling, a musician and composer, and took his last name. Nice Job!
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She was only 51, but she had a full life. Over the years, she was romantically linked to various celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Warren Zevon and Don Henley, as well as the financier Ronald O. Perelman. She was married three times, first to Keith Van Horne, a former tackle for the Chicago Bears, in 1988; then to Greg Malban, a D.J. known as Greg Thunder, in 1991. In 2005 she married Chan Poling, a musician and composer, and took his last name. Nice Job!
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