RIP HST

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.

Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill “gooks”. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.

- Hunter S. Thompson

I heard the news last night as I was driving SYTU and friend home from the local cineplex. The guys were sitting in the back seat raving about “Hotel Rwanda” when they couldn’t help but notice that, up in front, Mom had started muttering “Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!” and just wouldn’t stop.
Tonight I went to a bookshelf, took down my battered old dog-eared copies of F&L IN LAS VEGAS, F&L ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, and AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO [by eternally-beloved HST "Samoan attorney" Oscar Zeta Acosta]…and silently handed them to my kids. They’re both sitting in the living room right now: headphones on; listening to 89.3 ‘The Current’; reading Hunter S Thompson.