Rush Limbaugh dead at 70

[Torie]

Rush in his early days had incredible talent as an entertainer, who could laugh at himself, even while he was a pandering demagogue, who was wrong rather than right around 98.6% of the time, his ersatz statistician about right on the percentage, but just had the the integer reversed. One of the more unpleasant aspects of his act of course was his incorrigible homophobia.

Then somewhere along the way, as success went to his head, or maybe it was the drugs, he became a boring hack, and I never listened to him again. He was one day older than me, and we both got into medical trouble around the same time. But I lucked out, and dodged the bullet. It was a very close call however.

I view him despite all his notoriety  and financial success, as a tortured soul. He was never real at peace with himself, or the world. And for that I pity him.