RIP Mike Douglas

Killed by a high school classmate in a car accident.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28laura.html

Mrs. Bush concedes that she and her friend were chatting when she ran the stop sign. But she also suggests a host of factors beyond her control played a role — the pitch-black road, an unusually dangerous intersection, the small size of the stop sign, and the car the victim was driving.

“It was sporty and sleek, and it was also the car that Ralph Nader made famous in his book Unsafe at Any Speed,” she states. “He claimed the car was unstable and prone to rollover accidents. A few years later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration went so far as to investigate the Corvair’s handling, but it didn’t reach the same grim conclusions. I was driving my dad’s much larger and heavier Chevy Impala. But none of that would ever ease the night of November 6. Not for me, and never for the Douglases.”

Mrs. Bush reveals that she was wracked by guilt for years after the crash, especially after not attending the funeral and for not reaching out to the parents of the dead teenager. Her parents did not want her to show up at the funeral, she states, and she ended up sleeping through it.

 

A game of golf might have helped her deal with the guilt.

That she slept in instead makes me think she was dealing with depression.

 

Running afoul of the law is only OK if you're wearing a cowboy hat.

 

WTF on the thread title?

I thought this was about the talk show host, except he's already dead.

Then maybe I thought it was the actor, with Dick so tight with him he called him "Mike."

Do SportsJournalists.com members get paid based on clicks or something?

 

To clarify, this is Mike Douglas, the popular high school football star.

 

Yeah, and now I just caught up. Liberals and conservatives trolling each other.

Carry on.

 

The Auntie Zeituni story was A1 of today's Times.

But, discussing it is trolling. OK.

 

This excerpt is from a best-selling political memoir.

 

Mike Douglas used to make her moist (the only white man to ever do that to her, by the way):

 

Dinah Shore does not approve.

 

Are people tuning up their trolling game for 2016?

 

Just trying to be news leaders like CNN: