[Texian First]

I don't mean to be disrespectful of the recently departed...but I had never even heard of this guy...but I think that 'dumbness' is commiting suicide...I am sick and tired of the leftists referring to 'me' and my country as dumb just because we choose not to buy into and follow their ideas (and I use that term loosely).

RIP

[Perdogg]

He was a big time drugie.

[jocon307]

RIP

Agreed, fwiw.

This is rather off topic, but I've got to get it off my chest. I do not relish telling hubby (when he awakes) that HST is dead. He is already shook up about Sandra Dee dying, not to mention John Raitt. And this is all just today.

On Friday we went to the funeral of the sr. partner of the firm I work for, two weeks ago it was the wake for hubby's cousin, who was only about 32 and dead of cancer, healthy in June, 2004, dead in Jan, 2005.

Just a little too much death for us, lately.

Sorry for the mini-rant, thanks for letting me vent.

[E Rocc]

He was a big supporter of the Second Amendment. That alone suggests that despite being wrong on many issues, his first priority was liberty.

P.J. O'Rourke's inevitable obituary of HST will be interesting as they were close friends.

-Eric

[TheGeezer]

What lefties want to believe is that life is absurd, without meaning unless an individual creates one for himself.

Existentialism is what fuels contemporary liberalism, and when one finally fully commits to it, one is confronted with being conscious for a few short years in a frigid and otherwise overwhelmingly meaningless and lifeless universe. At first one feels heroic, continuing to live in those circumstances, but eventually that gloss fades to black.

If one is rescued by the Truth, prideful heroism becomes joyful humility, and embrace of Jesus obtains hope and light. If one rejects all invitations to the Truth, remaining obstinate in self-absorption, the alternative becomes increasingly seductive.

RIP, indeed.

[G.Mason]

I, for one, will not be as respectful of the recently departed.

I will assume, right or wrong, that the re-election of President Bush drove him to his end.

Adios ...

[cricket]

He is a listed columnist on Drudge. . .should you want to check him out. . .

[complex]

You should read some of his many books. He was for America in a way that America needs.

[JohnLongIsland]

he had pat buchanan pegged from the early senevties as
"the biggest closet liberal i know"
his book about the '72 campaign is really one of the better political books i've read

[marty60]

Well look at it this way. He has seen his "culture" being assigned to the dustbin of history. (Kerry-anti-war/American, algore, Hill and Bill,druggies, 60's BS), what is he going to do for the rest of his life.

But for the msm to try to make this zoned out stream of concious writer into some sort of literary icon is stomach churning.

and this article is just one indication of the shallowness of this guy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If you came of age in the 60s and 70s, you'd have remembered him.

[deepFR]

Another PEST related death (hurl). I seriously believe that were it not for the neurotic and psychotic, both the left-wing and their religion of psychiatry would fall apart.

[johnmilken]

Don't go to writers for politics, go for their writing.

HELL'S ANGELS and FEAR AND LOATHING are incredible works. Something else has dies with HST.

[t_skoz]

RIP - Hunter S. Thompson

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."

[kimbermatic]

HST writing style I enjoyed immensely. I didn't always agree with him, in fact he was one of the those from the left that I read to understand that perspective.

For those that attack his drug use, I would point out that we have had those on our side that seemed to have battled drug use.

I am leaving on a business trip today and I will take one of his books to read. I will miss HST and his ESPN columns.

[compass63]

What a great day to be alive and be in America. Another left-wing piece of crap does us a favor. He's "gonzo", and America is better off without him.

[P.O.E.]

"Where the Buffalo Roam" is a great film - Bill Murray captures his spirit way better than the paranoiac Depp version of him.

[A. Patriot]

I read his Hell's Angels book when I was a teenager. I really enjoyed it.

[rockprof]

Read a couple of his books and never understood why he was so well-regarded by many people. All I could think, while reading his essays, was "What a self-absorbed, drug-addled, egotistical ***hole!"

Just my opinion, but I think suicide is really the ultimate in selfishness as well. May God have mercy on his soul.

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds like Thompson was speaking for himself.

[najida]

RIP

We are all mixes of beliefs, some more than others.

Prayers for those who loved him.