Obit watch: May 20, 2026.

Barney Frank. WP (archived).

The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas.

The restaurant blamed major casinos and “corporate greed” for pricing average Americans out of the “quintessential American experience of affordable indulgence” in Las Vegas, it said.
“Our core value, ‘Eat big and laugh loud,’ no longer fits a city peddling $40 ‘artisanal avocado toast,’” the restaurant said.
“The honest, heavy-duty calories that built our reputation are now considered gauche by a city that has excluded the middle class and lost its swagger in the process.”

Lawrence sent over a report from Fox Las Vegas:

One Response to “Obit watch: May 20, 2026.”

  1. Pigpen51 says:

    Good old Barney Frank. I read how he was instrumental in fixing the banking regulations after 2008 when the whole thing collapsed.
    I seem to remember how Barney and Teddy Kennedy made banks give subprime loans to people who had no chance of repaying the huge debts that realtors put them into by selling them more home than they could afford.
    I guess that I have a faulty memory.

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