Peter Trigg, Newspaperman and Yellow Dog Democrat, Dies at 61

I wanted to self-indulge and post the obituary I wrote for my beloved father. In addition to the information below, he was a die-hard Democrat and, along with my mom, was a role model for my political activism. This past Tuesday, when he alarmed some medical staff with some hallucinatory stuff from the drugs being administered to him, he was asked some standard questions (name, residence, etc), which he knew, and they then asked him who the President of the United States was, and my dad, in classic fashion, and growing more exasperated by all these simple questions, replied with a groan: "Oh God, you're not going to make me talk about him are you?"

His D&E profile: http://www.adonkeyandanelephantwalkintoabar.com/ptrigg/

Peter Johnston Trigg, of Sarasota, Florida, a lifelong newspaperman, died after battling lung cancer for 3 1/2 months at the M.D. Anderson Clinic in Orlando, Florida, at 4:40 P.M. on June 9, 2007, at the age of 61. He retired in September, 2001, after working 27 years for the New York Times (NYT), thirteen of those for the Times-owned paper, the Sarasota Herald Tribune. ... Read More

Angela Trigg   (Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:53 AM)  

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Facebook and D/E Integration

OK, Facebook has launched a whole new platform today that will allow us to integrate more fully with your Facebook profile. For instance, we can have a D/E pane show on your profile page. What would you like to see from D/E "pushed" onto/made visible there? Any ideas?

Angela Trigg   (May 25, 2007 @ 03:46 PM)  

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