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May you have a rare disease and need an operation that only one surgeon in the world, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is able to perform. And may he be unable to perform it because he doesn’t take your insurance. And may that Nobel Laureate be your son.

Having nearly lost both of my parents to cancer and all of my grandmothers – Fuck Cancer.

RIP: Phyllis Diller, at 95: Legendary comic Phyllis Diller — who Joan Rivers says “broke the way for every woman comedian” — died today in her sleep. She was 95 and had been in a hospice care since a recent fall.

I had a comedy album of hers on hand for ages, RIP

Tony Scott dead; ‘Top Gun’ director jumped from bridge, authorities say

R.I.P – Why didn’t anyone see what was driving him to this?

Wikipedia:

George Stinney was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.

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No witnesses were called for the defense. The trial lasted two and a half hours. The jury took ten minutes to deliberate before it returned with a ‘guilty’ verdict.

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Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm, which he later used as a booster seat in the electric chair.