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I completely forgot that former(?) Dixiecrat Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) passed away the other day at the age of 100. That makes 78(9?)-year-old Buddy Hackett #3. Click the Dixiecrat link to an interesting story about how Thurmond never did renounce his racist past.

UPDATE: TWO DOWN...

Drudge Report is reporting that Buddy Hackett has died at the age of 79... meanwhile, CNN insists he was 78.

Well, if celebrities truly die in threes, then that creaky sound I hear must be Bob Hope crossing his fingers.

Okay you're saying, enough morbid humor.

By the way, I'm not proud that a tropical storm shares my name, but the coincidence makes for amusing headlines over at the Drudge Report and elsewhere.