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Offline thundley4

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Dummies mourn the death of
« on: January 27, 2010, 11:06:05 PM »
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Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
   

Source: Boston Globe

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.


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I had only heard of him recently and don't know Jack Squat about him, but if the DUmmies are saddened by his death, he must have been anti-American.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 11:08:39 PM »
Oh he was.

He wrote those "People's History" books. Radical left revisionist.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 11:11:09 PM »
Sweet.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 11:42:33 PM »
Say hi to Tookie.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 11:47:15 PM »
Now if only we could start cherry-picking the early deaths of the Worst Generation in American History.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2010, 06:08:13 AM »
When is Chomsky gonna die?

He's another one overdue for Satan's gay bath house.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 08:10:22 AM »
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 09:30:32 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 28, 2010, 06:08:13 AM
When is Chomsky gonna die?

He's another one overdue for Satan's gay bath house.

Soon, we can hope.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2010, 10:58:14 AM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 28, 2010, 06:08:13 AM
When is Chomsky gonna die?

He's another one overdue for Satan's gay bath house.

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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2010, 11:51:58 AM »
Another instance where "only the good die young" is proven!
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2010, 06:22:19 PM »
Prayers for his family, and his soul. 
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2010, 11:48:29 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on January 28, 2010, 06:22:19 PM
Prayers for his family, and his soul. 

I doubt this guy believed in an after-life!
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2010, 05:38:45 AM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on January 28, 2010, 11:48:29 PM
I doubt this guy believed in an after-life!

All the more reason to pray for him.
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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2010, 04:11:28 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on January 28, 2010, 06:08:13 AM
When is Chomsky gonna die?

He's another one overdue for Satan's gay bath house.

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Re: Dummies mourn the death of
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2010, 05:16:18 PM »
"Without Professor Zinn's help, I could never have hated America as much as I do. *sniff*" [/du mode]
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