Paul Wellstone

I feel like shit that I didn't note this recent date's passage, but here it is: on October 25th, 2002, a small plane carrying Senator Paul Wellstone, of Minnesota, his wife, and several close aides and friends, went down, killing all aboard.

Wellstone's memorial was hijacked by rightwingers like noted pill-popper Rush Limbaugh, former animated corpse speechwriter Peggy Noonan, and utter fucking tampon-smear Sean Hannity as a rampant partisan event, using the harshest language, accusing the speakers at the near-impromptu event held in a 16,000-capacity arena and televised (20,000 people showed up) of trying to use a man's death for political purposes. All of those pundits, of course, hadn't watched it, or been there, because they're lying fucking assholes. Hopefully they'll one day have to look at themselves in the mirror and just break down.

Paul Wellstone lived his life to help others. Warning: the wiki entry there basically gives credence to every bullshit theory of Wellstone's life, so take it with a little grain of salt. It does have lots of good links though. Including this one: Wellstone Action!

Go read it and figure it out yourself. The Insane Right in this country hated Wellstone because he wasn't a tool of invisible racist fake god, or of corporate dollars. Funny how that works out isn't it? Don't, whatever you do, read anything about how many fucking Democrats have been killed in plane crashes...it might make you paranoid.