US EditionGay/atheist Activist Dick Hewetson, and Songwriter Tom Lehrer
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Gay/atheist activist Dick Hewetson, and songwriter Tom Lehrer
Incursions of Christian nationalism at the federal and state level are increasing, and we are fighting back. We report a quick legal victory removing a Ten Commandments monument from an Illinois county courthouse. Then, we remember the lives of two precious freethinkers who died this month: long-time FFRF member Dick Hewetson, an Episcopal priest turned gay/atheist activist, who died at age 95; and satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer (“Vatican Rag”)…
Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97 and the world is a less intelligent and fun place. His biography and appearance had some screwball comedy. Raised in a Jewish family of the Upper East Side, he entered Harvard at the age of 15 and graduated in mathematics at the age of 18. He began to compose satirical songs that he sang for friends, and in 1953 spent 15 dollars on recording a record from which he made 400 copies. Eventually he sold almost half a…
The humour of Tom Lehrer, a musician and mathematician, has inspired many fans, including "Weird Al" Yankovic, Steely Dan, Randy Newman and Daniel Radcliffe. Tom Lehrer, an influential satirist singer whose humorous texts have aroused a true cult decades after the end of his musical career, died at the age of 97. He [...] This article Tom Lehrer, a satirist singer, died first on Rolling Stone.
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