The obit says he died because of the strain of living in this unjust country“.
An avid atheist, he studied the bible and religion with more fervor than most Christians. He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman’s radio broadcast “Democracy Now.” Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise. Stress from living in this unjust country brought about several heart attacks rendering him disabled.
But I expect it’s more what Will Smith said to his son in “Just the Two of Us,” “…hate in your heart will consume you, too.”
H/T Michelle Malkin.
June 21st, 2005 at 12:27 pm
This is amazing! How can the political right be blamed to someone’s death? Especially when it was his own ideals that led him to resentment.
June 21st, 2005 at 12:37 pm
Wow. Umm…okay. I don’t know how to respond to that…but there’s always Canada! Sounds like moving would have been better for his health
June 21st, 2005 at 12:39 pm
Wow, they even listed his turtles as survivors! What a weirdo - I was surprised to read that he had a wife, you’d think that might have kept him a bit more grounded, but I guess not.
June 21st, 2005 at 1:19 pm
wanda, the wife and family are the problem. they wrote the obit.
June 21st, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Regrets in order on any loss of life but the obit writer’s “Alas…” seems a bit cavalier as an official cause of death. Sort of fits in with the left’s view of current political reality as a surreal nightmare. Sorry, guys. We’re Baaccckkk!
June 21st, 2005 at 1:48 pm
But his turtles survived
“Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise…. The Anchoress quotes Will Smith ‘”…hate in your heart will consume you too.”
June 21st, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Seen recently: Skinhead and Studley moving slowly rightward, seeking lettuce…
I think he wrote it himself. The offhand “more fervor than most Christians” sounds like a self-perception. Although I do wonder about the reference to presumably non-avian right-winged Americans.
In the town where I live, the obituary for a very extraverted woman was obviously one she wrote, you could tell by the writing style and by the fact that she included an award in elementary school.
It’s easier to speak only good of those passed on, if they stick to the formalities as they go. Poor guy. That much resentment had to have been miserable.
June 21st, 2005 at 4:39 pm
Can you imagine the uproar if there was an obit written by a right wing Conservative Christian who spoke with such resentment about the left wing party? Horrors! When I read it, rather than feeling angry by his comments, I felt saddened that he felt that he lived in such an “unjust” country. How he could not see the beauty of our nation is beyond me. I think he wrote it himself, too.
June 21st, 2005 at 6:55 pm
Dig Two Graves
Cory Zimbleman is dead. Oddly enough, in death, he may have more impact than he did in life as he provide his fellow citizens with an object moral and philsophical lesson about the nature of hatred and resentment. Zimbleman was…
June 21st, 2005 at 7:10 pm
I suppose if you follow no religion, you make a religion out of something else, and live for that.
Amazing that any person could invest so much of himself in something as distant and paltry as his government, that he could be so tangled up in an ideology as to imagine himself into a prison that wasn’t there.
June 21st, 2005 at 8:28 pm
They needed to add the word ’shmuck’ to the obit.
Unbelievable.
June 21st, 2005 at 8:54 pm
Remember, “avid atheists” don’t silently and privately deny the existence of God, they screech their disbelief from the rooftops. I think passionately believing in a negative creed, would, in the long run, be far more stressful than an “unjust” presidential race. I can easily imagine this guy scouring the Bible for ammo to use against “stupid believers”; completely missing the beauty and truth and savoring the inconsistancies, the “silly” miracles, the rather un-PC stance taken by Jehovah regarding Israel’s enemies and so forth.
Whenever WI Public Radio features a guest from Madison’s “Freedom from Religion” organization, I am always struck by sour and bitter the anti-God crowd sounds. They’ll be miserable as long as there’s a crucifix left in the land.
Murray-O’Hair was not a happy camper either.
June 21st, 2005 at 10:09 pm
Liberal Dies, So It Must Be Bush’s Fault
So Bush and co. are responsible for this guy’s death, is that what they’re saying??
He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman’s radio broadcast “Democracy Now.” Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Ameri…
June 22nd, 2005 at 1:57 am
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