Because three men who made huge impacts on millions of lives have passed away today:
- philanthropist-billionaire Warren Hellman, the force behind many a San Francisco power deal and the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival
- first president of free a free Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel who fought Soviet influence
- eccentric and brutal North Korean president Kim Jong-Il
I know it's morbid but the third one is for the best. It's likely that the Demarcation Zone won't be done away with anytime soon but any transfer of power is sure to cause some unrest. Also, since Kim Jong-Il had such a strong cult of personality, no one else will have the same charisma with the people. Even if the executive power passes down to the son Kim Jong-Un, his reign will be dimmer than Kim Jong-Il's.
Saddam, Quaddafi, and Kim... it looks like dictators are dropping like flies from my Axis of Evil cookbook:
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| full of trivia tidbits and recipes for delicacies |
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