One of the features I miss most while I’m not blogging regularly is my dead celeb feature.� December turned out to be a gold mine.� James Brown, Gerald Ford, Joseph Barbera and Sadam Hussein all met their maker this month.� Let’s review:

• James ‘I Feel Good’ Brown was the godfather of soul, the hardest working man in show business and a snappy dresser.� He’s survived by some broad he was shacking up with, his cofer and a cataloge of music to keep jingle writers busy for years.
• Gerald Ford didn’t want to be president.� All he wanted was to be two bullets short of the Oval Office - Speaker of the House.� Instead after Agnew quit, the big baby, Nixon asked Ford� to step into the VP just a few months before Nixon took his secret service detail and went home too.� Ford moved into the White House, issued a bunch of pardons, and kept the place tidy for Carter - a penut farmer for Georgia who, it turns out, hates America.
• Joseph Barbera - from Scooby Doo to Jabber Jaw, from the Flintstones to Space Ghost; Joey B. gave us some of the best and some of the worst cartoons from our childhood.� They did it the old fashioned way; one water color back ground, lots of stock animation, and poorly written stories.� We’ll miss you Joey.
• Finally the worlds most loveable mass murdering dictator, Sadam Hussein, has left the stage.� He swung from the gallows this morning in Iraq.� They didn’t give him a change for one last genocide - just for old times.

Hope the new years finds you all well.�