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    Steven Den Beste, RIP

    Posted by Mrs. Davis on October 24th, 2016 (All posts by )

    Steven Den Beste has died. RIP and thanks for the many thoughts. Thinkers like him come all too infrequently.

     

    This entry was posted on Monday, October 24th, 2016 at 7:58 pm and is filed under Obits. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    9 Responses to “Steven Den Beste, RIP”

    1. Sgt. Mom Says:
      October 24th, 2016 at 8:40 pm

      Awww. damn! He was one of those brilliant, original thinkers – I knew when he gave up posting on Clueless that he was not in good health and that producing posts for it was a very heavy burden for him … but this is such a loss for us.
      Ave, SDB. You are missed, and have been missed.

    2. Jonathan Says:
      October 24th, 2016 at 8:51 pm

      Alav ha shalom. A great loss.

    3. Anonymous Says:
      October 24th, 2016 at 9:40 pm

      Was a major fan.

      RIP

    4. Gringo Says:
      October 24th, 2016 at 10:42 pm

      In addition, Bobby Vee and Tom Hayden died today. Or should I say Jane Fonda’s husband.

    5. Thomas Hazlewood Says:
      October 25th, 2016 at 8:08 am

      He used to comment at Instapundit, too. We’ve lost a fine mind and there are too few of those not to mourn.

    6. PenGun Says:
      October 25th, 2016 at 3:07 pm

      Well I can’t claim to have driven him to anime blogging, but I did try.

      I guess the highest compliment I can pay him, is I did think he was dangerous.

      RIP Steven

    7. Mike K Says:
      October 25th, 2016 at 3:22 pm

      “I did think he was dangerous.”

      What a compliment ! I hope I can qualify for the same. Little chance of it, though.

    8. Tonestaple Says:
      October 26th, 2016 at 12:25 pm

      He told a story once about where his last name came from. He said that the Dutch generally didn’t have last names. I don’t recall how they were identified way back when but they didn’t have actual last names. So one day, the government decides everyone must have a last name. The Dutch, being semi-German (or that’s my theory, at any rate) started picking a lot of scatological crap (sorry) to make funny names, not thinking that their descendants would be stuck with these names forever. But Steven’s ancestor was smarter than the rest and so picked the last name of “the Best.”

      For the longest time after he stopped posting at USS Clueless, I would go back and look and hope for something. I guess I finally deleted the bookmark but he was one of my three introductions to the blogosphere, along with Instapundit and Little Green Footballs. And that’s how a career in time-wasting was born.

    9. Lexington Green Says:
      October 26th, 2016 at 6:10 pm

      One of the founders of the blogosphere, and one of the best voices from back when it was exciting and fresh.

      Rest in peace, sir.

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