Reactionary blogger Andrew Breitbart has suddenly died at age 43. His site reported the death and said it was of natural causes. This was confirmed by ABC and his lawyer.

Apparently he was walking outside near his home in LA when somebody saw him fall down and called the ambulance. He was brought to the UCLA hospital, but was non-responsive to treatment.

He had become well known, and much either despised or loved, depending on your political perspective. He worked with Drudge and later founded Breitbart.com. It was hard to escape his frequent and vociferous pronouncements on topics, especially liberal vs conservative issues.

He was reviled by many when he precipitated the firing of Shirley Sherrod from the USDA by showing and trumpeting a bogus edit of a video that he claimed showed she discriminated against whites, when a full view of the speech in question actually showed how she overcame her negative feelings and prejudices, and worked for full equality, regardless of race.

Despite this, Ms. Sherrod offered her condolences to his family.

He also was a board member of GOProud until recently, and the Republican Gay Rights group also issued a statement lamenting the demise of a “friend and ally.”

Matt Drudge also issued a lengthy tribute to Breitbart on his website today, as did Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, where Breitbart also once worked.

He also was the initiator of “WeinerGate”, posting a pic of Rep Anthony Weiner’s crotch in underwear that wound up leading to his resignation.

Andrew Breitbart, dead at age 43.

Marcia Brady and millions of other once-teens are sad today because of the sudden death of Davy Jones, lead singer of the Beatles-copy TV band the Monkees. He allegedly suffered a heart attack in a Florida hospital.

Mr. Jones was the lead singer for some of the Monkee’s biggest hits, Like Valerie, Daydream Believer, and A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

The Martin County Sheriff’s Department said that Davy called in Wednesday morning of saying he was feeling bad and having trouble breathing. He never made it to the hospital alive, sadly.

The Monkees were a wildly popular TV band on a show that ran from 1966-68.

Shamelessly ripping off the Beatles, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, and Michael Nesmith were music-video revolutionaries and would eventually become a real band. Jimi Hendrix even opened up for them once.

He was the only English member of the band, and never minded the fact that he was often compared unfavorably to the band he blatantly emulated.

“I just wanted to be in the show, fall in love twice in each episode and kiss the girls,” he said in a recent interview.

All the other Monkees members are still alive.

Critics often made unfavorable comparisons between the Monkees and the Beatles, but according to Jones, the Beatles actually liked the band, saying even that Paul McCartney even called him once and told him to send a song to his daughter.

Jones had a few of solo records, in addition to his Monkees material.

He even hooked up with Marcia from the Brady Bunch.

Davy Jones, R.I.P.