Since I'm not supposed to speak ill of the dead...
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
Okay, then. One less chauvinist, hateful, pro-torture pig in the world. How's that?
Okay, that's much wittier.
Why? Would a Republican president in this situation do that? I think not. In fact, I know not.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, has died at the age of 79, a government source and a family friend told CNN on Saturday.
His death set off an immediate debate about whether President Barack Obama should fill the seat in an election year, and sources told CNN Saturday night that the President plans to nominate a replacement. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Obama should wait until the next president comes into office.
CNN
Well, there is that. So perhaps it's a win-win situation.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing [any] person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.
Glenn Greenwald on the death of Margaret Thatcher
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