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      Molly Ivins dies of cancer at 62

      Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!

      After a Seattle lecture she hosted with Garry Trudeau, we ran into them and ordered them the best Mac & Cheese in Seattle: "Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62."

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    • Cartoon creator Joe Barbera dies

      Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!

      Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95.

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      Sid Raymond, 97, Actor, Dies

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      One of his last jokes involved a son sending a prostitute over to his widowed father, in his 90s, still a self-proclaimed ladies’ man. She tells him she is his birthday present and will give him whatever he’d like. “I’ll take the soup,” he says.

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    Damianmann comments on:

    Tim Russert Dies Of Heart Attack At Age 58

    The way he fell hook line and sinker for the Iraq has nukes bull**** diminished him in my eyes. But, he was a Sunday morning tradition…like him or not.

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    11:27 pm 6/13/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    U. Utah Phillips Has Left the Stage

    Thanks for posting this. Sad news, but nice to read his post.

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    9:28 am 5/25/08
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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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