Rush Limbaugh announces he has advanced lung cancer

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253. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations

The book "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations" was first lent to me by a military vet that I worked with, shortly after it was published in '99. I started reading it over lunch, and had zero productivity for that afternoon and the next day until I finished it.

The book is still available, new or used (and maybe at your library). If you haven't read it recently (or ever) you need to grab a copy. I'm going to dig up mine and re-read it for the memories.

At the same time this book came out I worked with a bunch of Ditto heads that actually got a large office together, just so they could listen to his show. It was nice that they self-quarantined themselves to slow the spread of the poison. The guy who organized it all was (and is) a good friend. I used to email him Michael Moore's missives, back when you got that sort of thing though Usenet or email. It really pissed him off. We would bitch each other out over lunch (I mean have constructive discussions), or any time we visited each others office, but we had mutual respect and a lot of common ground, and it never hurt our friendship or working relationship.

I honestly felt bad for Limbaugh when he announced his hearing loss, but then I found out why. I still felt sympathy for him as a drug addict. That is terrible affliction for anyone, regardless of their class, but I had no respect for him because he was such a hypocrite for how he portrayed fellow drug addicts.

And then there was the time that he was detained by federal agents after a return from the Dominican Republic for "R&R" with drugs not prescribed to him. Specifically, Viagra. A popular R&R drug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Dominican_Republic

Again, look at his history. I don't take any joy in what he is and will go through. But it somehow seems fitting. He was a cancer on our society and damaged it "bigly".