Ted Turner passed away today, at the age of 87. He had been out of the public eye for several years now, first retiring from corporate responsibility in 2006 and finally conceding to the inevitable toll of a publicly announced diagnosis of Lewy’s body dementia in 2018. And although my colleague Dan McLaughlin did a fine job of summarizing his whirlwind life, in truth we were all left catching our breath with Hurricane Ted, a man of countless eccentricities, vices, follies........

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