Tribute Thread for the Recently Passed Greats

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Jimmy Carter, 98, Opts for Hospice Care - The New York TimesNot to be ghoulish but if you understand hospice then you can recognize this as his end.Let the eulogies flow.

You're not holding your pinky finger high enough.

A significant passing from the racial history of the USofA. Carolyn Bryant

1992 Saturday Night Live

Russian Agent Turned American Agent dies at 90

I was going to list a number of them for you but then thought I do not want this covey of earworms bouncing in my head for the next two weeks. You’re on your own, Tany.

My favorite Kissinger story was in the early seventies when he was seen in a number of high-profile glitzy party venues always accompanied by a beautiful woman clinging to his arm. And the press reports always mentioned how unkempt and ragged-tired he appeared the late late morning after. Sleepy-eyed enjoyment.Then it broke. He had been slipping out of the parties flying to Beijing for negotiations for months setting the stage for Nixon’s big China opening visit. He would take the red-eye back home to arrive looking like he had just pulled an all-nighter, which he had but not with a pretty girl but with a room full of old Chinese guys.Kissinger the faux playboy. I was impressed but disappointed the girls were just a prop.

One of the Horsemen fallsDaniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed “naturalism,” dead at 82 | Ars Technica

Theo, I don't know which Daniel Dennett you have in mind but I don't think it is this one: