Goodnight, Mom

The thing about taking a few days off is that it gives you a chance to catch up on life and the things you've been ignoring in recent days. So it was last night when I learned the sad news that Keith Olbermann's mother passed away last weekend (she had cancer). Aside from the passing itself and the cause of death, the timing was rather unfortunate since, as Keith made clear in his tribute to her the other night, she was a huge baseball fan and she passed away the day before the season began.

Anyway, regardless of how you feel about Keith, his show, or his politics, the tribute he aired to his mother earlier this week is worth watching, so I thought I'd share it here.

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