Some Tuesday Reads

 Obituary:  California GOP representative Doug LaMalfa, 65, died during surgery following a medical emergency today. He had served in the first congressional district, which is the northeastern corner of the state, including Redding and Chico.  He was in there quite a few years and focused mainly on rural issues.  He was still a MAGA cultist to the end of his life.

I heard his district would be affected by gerrymandering beginning this upcoming election.

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Trump continues to be nuttier than a peach orchard boar.

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The Wyoming Supreme Court takes a stand in favor of sanity.

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Obituary: Michael Reagan, 80, oldest son of former president Ronald Reagan and a one-time talk show host, has died.  He died on Sunday, January 4.  Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman adopted him as a newborn.

Snip:

Reagan was born to Irene Flaugher in 1945 and adopted just hours after his birth by Ronald Reagan and his then-wife, actor Jane Wyman.

The young Reagan followed in his parents’ footsteps.

After attending Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, Reagan took up acting, playing in television shows including “Falcon Crest,” and he spent nearly two decades as a conservative radio talk show host, speaking of politics and culture.

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I didn't know he had tried his hand at acting, including being on his mother's television series.   I will have to check the latter out.

Reagan was also involved in many charitable organizations, as noted in the article.

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Another obit:  Traitor Aldrich Ames, 84, died yesterday in a Maryland prison.

He deserved to rot there:

Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency’s history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. He was 84. His death was recorded in the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate database, which did not say how he died, and confirmed by a spokesman for the agency.

“Financial troubles, immediate and continuing,” Mr. Ames said matter-of-factly, were what led him to spy for the Soviet Union and to remain a double agent for nine years, until the moment of his arrest in February 1994. He had continued to spy for Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991. But money, he said, was not the only reason he could justify to himself what became the Central Intelligence Agency’s worst security loss in its then 47-year history.