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Anyway, at some point, Jenny Diski also said she was in remission. But a couple of months later, she was dead.

Boooooooo!

Luke Halpin's cancer is in remission now, but apparently the Alzheimer's causes problems: https://www.gofundme.com/pc62tqxk(latest update)

Anyone starting a Rotten Deadpool team soon? Former Maryland congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley in hospice care: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/06/22/former-journalist-maryland-congresswoman-in-hospice-care/

Qualifying obit for Bernie: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/25/bernie-worrell-parliament-funkadelic-co-founder-dies-aged-72

All possibly true, though I guess the referendum only sped up the processes that were already going on anyway. Since around 1880 the UK was in a process of decline. It looked like the process was stopped with the Thatcherite reforms, but it wasn't really true, because the price of London's increased share of global capital was the fragmentation of the British society, which has now resulted in the Brexit vote. And what did the UK gain with these reforms? Probably not much, since relatively static, more leftist France had a similar economic trajectory, and has now overtaken the UK. Being Norway wouldn't be that bad, though, I guess.

DDP pick Steve LaTourette apparently had a very successful experimental surgery to treat his pancreatic cancer and is fine for now: http://www.cleveland.com/rnc-2016/index.ssf/2016/06/rnc-week_event_will_feature_pe.html

I had to think about this again. With all the Australian obits appearing in the British press, and people like Andrew Smith getting a Guardian obit, obituary-wise the UK (press) has indeed regarded itself more as a member of the Five Eyes coalition than of the EU. It's indeed a bit symbolic.

And if anyone cares about my own thoughts on this, I am of two minds. On the one hand, I regard it as a triumph against the neo-liberal consensus, on the other hand, it's a real pity. I think Mr. Corbyn has a similar opinion, the EU has become a bit of a bureaucratic corporatist nightmare, but then the original idea was rather neat. I wonder what will happen to my british neighbors in hipsterific Berlin Neukölln.

Lovely, you always have your eyes on the prize. By the way, I just read it on reddit (geddit?), "every PM is known for one, two important things. What will David Cameron be remembered for? Pig-fucking and gambling away EU membership." Usually, the REAL royal fuck-ups look like it. Like George W. Bush was a dry drunk, and a bit of a doofus. But Cameron, never has complete fuck-up-itude looked so ordinary.

True. At some point, he WILL have his own thread.

Across my three teams, Paul Cox is now my 20th hit this year (that is, the 20th person to die and receive a qualifying obit). I have some small regrets that I spread the talent too thin, and across too many competitions (with my handicap not to use a name twice). So my teams turned out a bit too clever by half. If I had these 20 hits in one team, I'd be at 211pts now. But that's not really a valid calculation, as I would have not chosen a couple of people who actually died and obited (like Nikolaus Harnoncourt). Also, that team would have had two jokers. Ah well, there's still Kate Granger to support my quest to at least win one competition this year. Will she be the last hit for Shameless? The obitability chances of the others have already declined by a lot, maybe Mark Nurthen and Connie Johnson will be an exception. Kris Hallenga is doing very well.

Probably the biggest case of will he or won't he make it to 2017, Craig Sager covers his first NBA Finals game and gets a Daily Mail article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3646886/LeBron-heartfelt-moment-Craig-Sager-sportscaster-covered-NBA-finals-game.html

Very marginally famous writer Colin Butts has stage IV pancreatic cancer: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/movies/movie-news/ibiza-writer-diagnosed-terminal-cancer-8227488#E95AOAUQs2VtmMjp.97 His script was just turned into a movie and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Update on former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert: He is to serve his time in the Rochester prison, which is known for his advanced medical facility, specializing in the treatment of HIV and other infectious diseases that need long-term treatment, and also in the treatment of end-stage liver disease: http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/hastert-to-serve-prison-sentence-in-rochester/article_e54e1f2f-7a5a-58b1-ba6d-774fedb2da8c.html The decline of his health began with a catastrophic blood infection that almost killed him last year.

you are trusting news supplied by a company called hacks? By now, I wish I hadn't posted it. But I also thought that the video is another sign of his beginning decline.

Uuuh, I'm actually shocked, because it comes out of the blue and is so bizarre (and the new Star Trek movies are a heresy!)

So some people now suggest he might have cancer: https://twitter.com/IndyHack/status/744472442672914432 Edit: It is an anti-Dalai Lama source though (created by the Communist Party?)

Points for Tom Leppard for me: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/world-famous-leopard-man-who-8193316

It's far from being beyond the realms of possibility for this to happen and I really hope it does just for the urban legend that will surely start doing the rounds that Zsa Zsa Gabor's marriage was catastrophic for Hungarian international football. Darn it, there goes that conspiracy theory. Zsa Zsa is such a spoilsport. Goal for Hungary...

Margaret Vinci Heldt, inventor of the beehive haircut, dead at 98: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/margaret-vinci-heldt-dies-age-98-beehive-hairstyle

She coughs her way through an interview about life and death and the whole thing: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/13/vanessa-redgrave-interview-simon-hattenstone

Forsyth

A serious question: is Magere Hein dead?

Congratulations Spade, a risk well-taken.