[QUOTE=kriesel;541176]Tom Coburn, staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, just as the latest multitrillion-$ US stimulus package got signed. [url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-tom-coburn-dies-after-years-long-cancer-battle-report[/url][/QUOTE]The [url=https://apnews.com/d0ca24d90747067301ee8ce5fe728562]AP obituary[/url] has an interesting passage:[quote]In 2009, Coburn shrugged off constituent complaints after the state's largest newspaper, The Oklahoman, ran a front-page photograph of Coburn hugging then-President Barack Obama.

"I'm not aligned with him politically. I don't know what people back home in Oklahoma would be worried about," Coburn told the paper. "But you need to separate the difference in political philosophy versus friendship. How better to influence somebody than love them?"[/quote]Seems rather quaint, these days...

[QUOTE=kriesel;541176]Tom Coburn, staunch opponent of wasteful government spending, just as the latest multitrillion-$ US stimulus package got signed. [url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-tom-coburn-dies-after-years-long-cancer-battle-report[/url][/QUOTE]

For those interested in the inanity and ignorance-of-government-finance Coburn-style deficity scoldery entails, cf. [url=https://mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=541187&postcount=106]my reply to another "deficits bad!" poat by kriesel in a nearby thread[/url].

Just paying the interest is dwarfing other programs. And that's with the Fed's ability to manipulate interest rates to the government's advantage. [url]https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/11/we-will-soon-be-spending-more-on-national-debt-interest-than-on-these-vital-programs[/url]

Janie Marshall, 86, after an assault by a much younger hospital patient. [url]https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-woman-86-dies-knocked-ground-violating-coronavirus-social-distancing[/url]

British techies will be saddened to hear of the deathj of [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/media/askjack/2020/apr/01/jack-schofield-guardian-ask-jack-tech-columnist-dies-at-72"]Jack Schofield[/URL]

Very little idea how well known he was outside the UK.

[URL="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/03/bill-withers-influential-soul-singer-dies-aged-81"]Bill Withers[/URL] (81)

[QUOTE=paulunderwood;541689][URL="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/03/bill-withers-influential-soul-singer-dies-aged-81"]Bill Withers[/URL] (81)[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/03/lean-on-me-lovely-day-singer-bill-withers-dies-at-81/[/url] has a couple of tunes linked, which lead to more after they're done playing.

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yeyEIlS_7E"]Arianne Caoili[/URL] (Levon Aronian's wife)

I know she was not an old famous mathematician, but when somebody young, beautiful, and smart, goes, is even more sad. Rest in peace Arianne.

What do you get if you put a whole duck in an oven?
 

Its [URL="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52155227"]Bill Withers[/URL]

[QUOTE=xilman;541701]Its [URL="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52155227"]Bill Withers[/URL][/QUOTE]
WAY too soon to be a punch line.

[QUOTE=kriesel;541705]WAY too soon to be a punch line.[/QUOTE]

As Cupid Stunt would say: It was all done in the [B]best possible taste[/B]. Any half-way decent search engine will turn up many more examples. Such as

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