Too Young, Too Soon; And Blogs As Cultural Education Tools
At age 44, they were both too young and, until only recently, too seemingly healthy, but baseball great Kirby Puckett, who died Monday from a stroke, and actress Dana Reeve, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, are among today's most-discussed personalities in the blogosphere for their early deaths.
"Still the best thing in decades in baseball," was the tribute to Puckett, 45, by the blogger at Chewie World Order, while the Minneapolis Star-Tribune offered a simple "Goodbye, Kirby." Many of the references to Reeve's death, coming as it does soon after the death of her husband actor Christopher Reeve, note that the research center the two set up to study severe spinal cord injuries/paralysis would be obliterated by recently proposed health-budget cuts by the Bush Administration. Asks the CarpetBagger blogger: "Hard choices?" That's the best rationalization they've got?
A BlogPulse Trend Graph keeps things in persepctive about the leading causes of death: the spike for HIV/AIDS occurs on Dec. 1, designated at World AIDS Day:
Blogging as Cultural Education
Today's No. 2 top blog post from His Master's Toys blog proves that blogs can help close the cultural divide through something as simple as a video and an explanation of how to turn 82 feet of colorful cloth into an Indian turban. Although the video takes longer than usual to load, it's fascinating and worth the wait.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at March 8, 2006 10:29 AM
