[Kitten Festival]

A hard look at this writer who wasted his talent. Extremely good reading. Be sure to click on the essay you will not be disappointed.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Hunter Thompson running around Las Vegas with a huge Samoan, high on pineal gland extract and peyote and acid--that's funny. Hunter Thompson lying alone on a sweat-soaked mattress, making up self-aggrandizing fables while real journalists are out talking to people--that's pathetic."

"He was brilliant, so he had to be aware that he had sold himself cheap. ...... I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Thompson killed himself out of sheer disgust. Maybe by creating and living a ridiculous persona, he painted himself into a corner and kept painting and painting until there was no corner left; only paint."

Sums him up perfectly.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree, this is very well written, and cuts like a scalpel. I prefer the kinder obituary by Tom Wolfe. And I tend to agree with Wolfe's conclusion that Wolfe was a comic genius with a sardonic twist. Though I would not hang my hat on the parallel with Mark Twain that Wolfe asserts.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, Confessions of a "Salivating Moron"

[ARCADIA]

Thanks for posting, I followed the click-trail. I didn't know who Hunter Thompson was before he killed himself. But, reading all the eulogies about him the last few days, glamorizing some very self-destructive behavior, I said to myself "Wonder what the Freepers think?"

Glad I checked it out.

[mercy]

One of the great triumphs of evil in our age has been our acceptance of the belief that there is no black nor white ... only shades of gray. One must be a sold wholesale to this intellectual parlour trick not to see Hunter Thompson for the disgusting fraud he was.

A man who leads others to distruction must be seen for what he is. Satan's tool.