Tuesday Reads

 I will bet anything you want the teacher was indeed fired from her job.

School districts are infamous for how they look to the public.  Having that teacher around is a reminder of how negligent they were at the time she was shot by a 6-year-old.

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Obituary:  Pulitzer-prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, 89, died today.  His novels are highly regarded by critics.

Snip:

Although McCarthy was born in Rhode Island, he grew up in the South, his father a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Embarking on a writing career, he changed his name from Charles to Cormac so as not to be confused with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's famous dummy Charlie McCarthy.

His first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published by Random House in 1965, but it was Blood Meridian in 1985 that garnered acclaim. Then in 1992, the coming-of-age novel All The Pretty Horses — the first book of his "Border Trilogy" — won the National Book Award and made McCarthy famous.

No Country For Old Men began as a screenplay, grew into a novel and cemented the writer's reputation as a giant of the Western canon. The movie adaptation won four Academy Awards, including best picture, in 2008.

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Our healthcare system sucks, and  it sucks for prominent people as well as those of us nobodies.

Sad, indeed.

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Another obit:  Actor Treat Williams, 71, tragically died in a motorcycle accident.

Snip:

With more than 120 credits to his name, Williams' career extended over four decades with appearances in films like Steven Spielberg's 1941 and Heart of Dixie, and television shows like Blue Bloods, The Late Shift, Chicago Fire and Chesapeake Shores.

Williams also appeared in several Hallmark projects like The Christmas House, Beyond the Blackboard, Safe Harbor and Chasing a Dream, as well as Netflix's Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square and The Noel Diary.