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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I audibly gasped with surprise and sorrow when this came across my facebook feed.
This sort of shit shouldn't be happening to us as often as it is. I will miss him terribly.
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Miserable goddamned disease. Merciless. And he had to deal with it twice. But I recall, in one exchange, he said he planted a tree and planned to see it reach full growth. Maybe he didn’t live long enough to do so, but that’s an attitude worth celebrating. Few folks could muster that finger-in-the-eye response to a terrible diagnosis. Can’t imagine he went out without a hell of a fight.
We argued a lot (although in recent years, there was probably more agreement than disagreement), but he knew his shit and one was always enlightened for having had the back and forth. Who else almost worked for Ian Bremmer? That’s some rarified air.
He was religious, I think. I hope he was right, and the food’s killer up there. That’s the least the universe could do - he certainly deserved more time.
