Alex Salmond, former Scottish First Minister and champion of Scotland's secession movement, has died. All of the following news links are from the BBC.
Salmond family pay tribute to 'devoted and loving' man
'Time stopped' after Salmond collapsed at conference
Alex Salmond: Champion of independence leaves a fractured political legacy
Key moments of Alex Salmond's career... in 107 seconds
Alex Salmond obituary: A man and a politician of contradictions
Scotland's former First Minister Alex Salmond dies age 69
Tom Hunter pays for plane to bring Alex Salmond's body home
Salmond's body to be brought home on private flight
Alex Salmond's body arrives back in Scotland
It's vulgar to speak ill of the dead, but personally, I won't miss him. This is my favorite photo of him: dejected, after his asinine secession referendum lost by a solid margin.
Alex Salmond was dishonest, and fought tirelessly for a change of affairs that would have left Scotland politically, economically, and culturally weak. Oh, yeah, and he once got kicked off of a British Airways flight because he attempted to travel under the pseudonym "James Kirk" instead of his real name. I won't miss him, at all.
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