Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give ’em a final fuck you.
There’ll be a roundup like this once weekly, until I’m on the list myself.
Brad Arnold
rock’n’roller, 3 Doors Down
Greg Brown
rock’n’roller, Cake
Deborah Cameron
author, Verbal Hygiene
Kimberly Drayton
forgotten person
Dave Farber
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Carlos Hernández
“Life is a huge privilege.”
Tra’Veiah Houfmuse
2nd Amendment
Christa Lang
actress, What’s Up Doc?
Mickey Lolich
baseballer, Detroit Tigers
Allan Massie
author, The Sins of the Father
Lamonte McLemore
rock’n’roller, The Fifth Dimension
Ray Mouton
1980s warning about perv priests
Jimmy Moschello
rock’n’roller, Vito Picone & The Elegants
name withheld
forgotten person
name withheld
forgotten person
Chuck Negron
rock’n’roller, Three Dog Night
Rick Renick
baseballer, Minnesota Twins
Francis Lee Ridge
UFO investigations
Fred Smith
rock’n’roller, Blondie, Television
Tyjon Malik Stewart
2nd Amendment
Gerardo Taracena
actor, Apocalypto
John Virgo
snooker superstar
Nicholas White
didn’t like malaria
• Greg Abbott • Mark Alford • Samuel Alito • Marc Andreessen • Sam Altman • Brian Babin • Steve Ballmer • Ben Bankas • Steve Bannon • William Barr • Amy Coney Barrett • Joel Berry • Scott Bessent • Jeff Bezos • Lauren Boebert • Pamela Jo Bondi • Emil Bove • Greg Bovino • Sergey Brin • Vern Buchanan • George W Bush • Doug Burgum • Steven Calabresi • Tucker Carlson • Elaine Chao • Jonathan Choe • Susan Collins • James Comer • Tim Cook • Tom Cotton • Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz • Henry Cuellar • Paul Dans • Michael Dell • Ron DeSantis • Betsy DeVos • Sean Duffy • David Ellison • Larry Ellison • John Fetterman • Randy Fine • Tulsi Gabbard • Newt Gingrich • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez • Jonah Goldberg • Neil Gorsuch • Franklin Graham • Lindsey Graham • Chuck Grassley • Marjorie Taylor Greene • Nikki Haley • Sean Hannity • Josh Hawley • Pete Hegseth • Mike Huckabee • Sarah Huckabee Sanders • Laura Ingraham • Hakeem Jeffries • Mike Johnson • Ron Johnson • Alex Jones • Jim Jordan • Alex Karp • Brett Kavanaugh • Robert F Kennedy Jr • Charles Koch • Julia Koch • David Kustoff • Leonard Leo • Jared Kushner • Jake Lang • Karoline Leavitt • Corey Lewandowski • Joe Lonsdale • Howard Lutnick • Ed Martin • Ghislaine Maxwell • Mitch McConnell • John McEntee • Linda McMahon • Vince McMahon • Mark Meadows • Katie Miller • Stephen Miller • Steven Mnuchin • Lisa Murkowski • Elon Musk • Mick Mulvaney • Peter Navarro • Benjamin Netanyahu • Kristi Noem • Andy Ogles • James O’Keefe • Larry Page • Kash Patel • Rand Paul • Ken Paxton • Sonny Perdue • Tony Perkins • Mike Pompeo • Sidney Powell • Vladimir Putin • Vivek Ramaswamy • John Ratcliffe • John Roberts • Joe Rogan • Karl Rove • Chip Roy • Marco Rubio • Rick Santorum • Chuck Schumer • Jeff Sessions • Ken Shamrock • Kyrsten Sinema • Roger Stone • Peter Thiel • Clarence Thomas • Rex Tillerson • Donald Trump • Donald Trump Jr • Ivanka Trump • Melania Trump • Tommy Tuberville • JD Vance • Russell Vought • Alice Walton • Rob Walton • Jim Walton • Lukas Walton • Bari Weiss • Mark Zuckerberg
• and any Secret Police wearing a mask •
“I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
—Clarence Darrow
2/11/2026
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