Former Tennessee Senator and Labor Secretary Bill Brock is dead at 90.
I am a bad person. But I’ll miss that voice.
I am saddened by this news and I won’t respond to it.
Craig “muMs da Schemer” Grant, poet and actor, passed away at 52.
French Director Bertrand Tavernier, 21pts
Larry McMurtry, author of “Lonesome Dove,” died on Thursday. He was 84. (NYTimes)
New York Yankee, World Series record holder, cardiologist & multiple war veteran Bobby Brown has died at 96.
As best I can tell none of these deaths gave points to players. There was a pick by Hal Briston named Bobby Brown, but that was specified to be a singer.
Beverly Cleary has written her last account of Ralph S. Mouse. Age 104.
I’ve heard of her, but I’ve never read a book she wrote. I guess they weren’t in the libraries I went to as a kid.
I grew up in Portland OR, which had settings from her books (though we lived on the other side of town).
Cancer has taken another legend of the car community. Ryu Asada, who has designed cars for both Hot Wheels and Matchbox, has died at age 42 of colorectal cancer.
The announcement came via Asada’s Instagram. He had been battling Stage IV colorectal cancer for almost five years, undergoing a variety of treatments while remaining on diecast design teams. He died on March 23, 2021 with his longtime partner, Hazel Diaz Asada, at his side.
Albania’s former Primer Minister Bashkim Fino has passed away at 58 (covid).
Ah, well… 
nitpick: Generalísimo, with one s and an accent. Very dead. Will put him on my list next year. Gotta have some pleasure…
So you plan to start out with -46 points?
Better than remaining stuck at no points at all, isn’t it?
Generalissimo is the correct spelling in English, and N9IWP was indeed posting in English. According to my old Webster’s New Collegiate dictionary the word came to us via Italian, and has been in use since 1621.
Yes, in Italian it is the correct spelling, but Franco’s “title” was in Spanish. Just like you would not say the Driver, but the Führer or il Duce, when referring to one of his role models. And in italics, to make it clear it is not an English word. That’s what I would do, anyway.
But generalissimo is the correct spelling in English as well as in Italian. There have been many generalissimos in history. Franco was a particularly famous Spaniard who held that military rank, which is one step up from Field Marshal. Ferdinand Foch is called Maréchal Foch in French, but is routinely called Marshal Foch in English as would Général de Gaulle be called General. Would you try to render Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s rank in Chinese characters?