“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make,” – Ted Kennedy

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning. Mr. Carradine is perhaps best known for his role as Bruce Lee impersonator Kwai Chang Caine in the 70s TV series “Kung Fu”. However, he is most loved around Pinko for his amazingly awesome turn as Detective Shepard in the equally amazing 1982 classic “Q: The Winged Serpent”.

November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009
May the angels swaddle you in soft, Corinthian leather.
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Over the past eight years a dark, shadowy figure has quietly roamed the venerable halls of the White House.  It has observed great events and small, national crises and family birthdays, the highs and lows of the most powerful office in the world.  Through war and peace, prosperity and poverty, love and hate, a beloved [...]

April 22, 1923 – December 11th, 2008

May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008
Update: Here is video of the announcement from Tom Brokaw.