What a guy.
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Fuller died on July 1, 1983, 11 days before his 88th birthday. He had become a guru of the design, architecture, and ‘alternative’ communities, such as Drop City, the community of experimental artists to whom he awarded the 1966 "Dymaxion Award" for "poetically economic" domed living structures. During the period leading up to his death, his wife had been lying comatose in a Los Angeles hospital, dying of <a title="Cancer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer”>cancer. It was while visiting her there that he exclaimed, at a certain point: "She is squeezing my hand!" He then stood up, suffered a heart attack, and died an hour later. His wife of 66 years died, 36 hours after he had died, without ever regaining consciousness. They are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Going through the pearly gates hand-in-hand. How appropriate, don’t you think!
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The above is from the Wikipedia entry for Buckminster Fuller, which I was reviewing because someone selling survivalists domes called him Buckmeister and I had to check if I had been wrong all these years. I wasn’t, but the guy making geodesic domes that are virtually synonymous with BF didn’t even know his correct name! Silly people.
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I love that story 🙂 That’s how I wanted my husband and I to die.
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There’s no need for a specific plan to replace a general. It just requires making a decision quickly. The government has neither the equipment nor the expertise to deal with an oil leak. So its job is to require BP to have a workable plan. You can blame Obama for not doing more to clean up MMS, but that’s very different.
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You may have disagreed with the stimulus, but it was part of an economic plan, along with health care reform. Obama actually did have a health care plan, he just didn’t push Congress on it, because he didn’t want to repeat Clinton’s mistake. But, again, different debate. And, of course, I wasn’t arguing that the bill was good.
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As for Bush, I avoided bringing him up, but since you did: What plan did he have for dealing with the WTC attack? What plan did he have for the housing crash? None, obviously, because they weren’t things he should have had a plan in place for. It wouldn’t have been fair to expect him to have a plan before the fact. That’s what you’re doing with Obama here, though.
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You’re criticizing him for not having plans for situations that he shouldn’t have had plans for anyway. And while we’re on the subject of Bush: What was his plan, going in, for dealing with an insurgency in Iraq? Or an incompetent and corrupt central government in Afghanistan? Seems to me those are the kinds of things a president actually should plan for.
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That’s a nice story:)
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