Richard Scaife, Newspaper Billionaire and Andrew Mellon Heir, Has Untreatable Cancer

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24. A life spent in hate is no life at all

Richard Mellon Scaife's whole life revolved around hate. According to his baby book, his first words were "Mommy, I hate you."

He hated Democrats and liberals and, by all accounts, chocolate ice cream. He hated to get up in the morning. Hated to go to bed at night. He hated paying his workers but also hated not making money, for which he needed them. He hated his car but hated shopping for different ones worse.

His whole life was consumed by hate, and he used his considerable wealth to spread it far and wide. He hated that too, if only to be consistent.

There is no afterlife; we only live on in the memories of others. His time on earth will be remembered as one filled with hate.

This should be a lesson to us all: Richard Mellon Scaife stands as a gray-painted, barnacle-covered example of how not to be.