We still have time for 2016 to take Trump, something as simple as a piano dropping on his head.

He's also in his seventies, has what appears to be a Dead-Head in a labcoat for a personal physician, and seems to have anger management issues. A coronary isn't out of the question.

Thank you for reminding us that Mike "Zap the Traps" Pence is one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Here's to the God-Emperor spending 10,000 years on the Golden Throne.

This year of celebrity deaths can be traced back to Reagan/Bush allowing Nicaragua rebel groups to sell cocaine in the USA to fund their Contra war against the elected government.

Are you secretly Madpride?

If the Iran Contra scandal was easier to understand, Reagan/Bush would have been executed for treason.

I was about to disagree, then did my homework. I'm not sure they would have been executed, but their actions clearly fall within the Constitutional definition of Treason. As usual in these situations, it would have come down to deciding who new what and when they knew it.

About 10 or 15 years ago, circulating around the Net was a photo of Chewie with his paw on Leia's boob, his mouth open in a roar and hers in mock horror, both of them clearly enjoying the setup. I printed out a copy and took it to a dinner where Carrie Fisher was the guest of honor. The org she was speaking for was a recovery outlet for women. She was an excellent speaker very open and hilarious.

But to get back to the photo, afterwards Carrie was signing autographs. I took her the photo of Chewie and Leia. She had this wondrous look on her face when she asked me, "Where did you get this?" I told her the Net, and that I knew she might love it. She did.

She signed it to me, with my name, with something really nice.

It's my favorite photo.

It is going to be slim pickings for the Reaper of 2017.

No, he died in 1983.

- too soon!

And yet somehow Shane Macgowan still draws breath

It's no place for the old.

Someone must still have a backup of 2015. Can we reboot this year and run it again from the top?

Well, fuck.

Well,Reaper 2016 got the "excessive living icons" merit badge, that's for sure.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

:(

It's good to see that Princess Leia is still in the first page of google image hits for "gold bikini."

Shit

If I had to look back on my life, and on the women that influenced it, outside of friends and family she was probably the one that shaped my ideas of what a woman could be. Every time we went to the local video store, I’d ask two things: “Can I rent a game?” (usually no) and “Can I rent Star Wars?” (exasperated yes). I never grew up thinking women couldn’t do something a man could do, and I pin a whole lot of that on Princess Leia kicking ass in A New Hope.

I wonder how they are going to handle Episode 9 now.

They'll have an on-screen death of a similar-looking actress wrapped in bad CGI.