This past year hasn't been kind to Art Buchwald, the 80-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning political satirist who...has poked fun at politicians for 50 years.Buchwald lost a leg in February...his kidneys failed due to diabetes...a poor candidate for a transplant. And dialysis, a five-hour "washing-machine process," did not cheer him up.
So he told his family at the end of February that he would pass on daily dialysis and accept the fact that it was his time to go...
...Buchwald never finished high school. He ran away to join the Marines instead. Afterward, he enrolled at the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill. He was editor of Wampus...and he wrote a column for the college newspaper, The Daily Trojan...
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