I find it mesmerizing that people on this thread have a problem with the criticism of a highly influential person upon their death. I mean were people bound to

I find it mesmerizing that people on this thread have a problem with the criticism of a highly influential person upon their death. I mean were people bound to say only positive things when Augusto Pinochet and Robert Mugabe dusted off? Obviously I don't think T Boone shares the legacy of violent dictators but my point is that those clutching their pearls here trying to categorically separate themselves from those who speak ill of the dead are not separate at all. They either don't believe what Pickens did was all that bad or they don't believe he did bad things. On their spectrum of "posthumous criticism" Pickens lies on the positive side of their personal threshold.