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Hunter S. Thompson never wised up to the hypocrisy of Democrats or the dangers of utopian dreams. Perhaps we could blame the War on Drugs, which criminalized Thompson’s preferred lifestyle. But I think his instinctive loathing of all things Republican was really hereditary. At rock bottom, Hunter S. Thompson was a Kentucky Democrat, with the fierce born-and-bred partisanship of a ”Yellow Dog.” And I know the breed well, having been one myself. This is a phenomenon I’ve struggled to explain to my Young Republican friends. I grew up in the Georgia of Jimmy Carter and Sam Nunn, a place where...

Dear Mr. Hunter S. Thompson

DENVER — It wasn't a reckless obsession with liquor, drugs and gunplay that made the late Hunter S. Thompson the undisputed king of Gonzo journalism, his wife says. Instead, it was old-fashioned principles such as working hard and telling the truth, enlivened by the glee Thompson took from learning and from being right.< >After his death, Anita Thompson said, she got stacks of e-mails and letters from young people who thought they could duplicate his success by mimicking his infamous consumption. "They wrote me these letters about drinking bottles of Wild Turkey and doing grams of cocaine," said Thompson, a...

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Renegade author Hunter S. Thompson lamented the onset of old age and his physical limits, then concluded, "Relax -- This won't hurt," in an apparent suicide note published on Thursday by Rolling Stone magazine, his literary springboard. The scrawled words -- perhaps the last he ever committed to paper -- were written on February 16, four days before the self-described "gonzo" journalist shot himself to death at his secluded home near Aspen, Colorado, the magazine said. Thompson was 67, and at the time friends and family said he had been in pain from hip replacement surgery, back surgery and a...

The SUV that Kerry's family owned... not his - is up for auction on eBay. Kind of a rust bucket if you ask me. City Motor Group is Honored to offer this 1995 Land Rover Defender 90 to our savvy online shoppers. This Defender comes with outstanding pedigree!!! Previously owned and driven by family of former Presidential Candidate. Bottle of Notable Ketchup is not included in the purchase. This Defender has spent the majority of its spoiled life in Nantucket.

Yes, we have their play book. Over 6 million Veterans served in Vietnam 58,000 of the names are on the black wall in D.C. Now is the time to restore the honor of the 6 million by correcting the wrongful depictions of our Vietnam Veterans. This will happen as we rally in defense of this generation of troops. Then we will go after the educrats who have perpetuated the 1971 Kerry lie. We will find all the text books that wrongfully depict our Vietnam hero's and replace them with the correct accounting of what happened. And then we will go...

John Kerry attends Thompson's blowing-up.

Former presidential candidate John Kerry attended an intimate and exclusive farewell for gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson, a suicide victim – complete with tributes to drugs and blow-up sex dolls adorning the event.

Firework Farewell Set for 'Gonzo' Thompson DENVER Co. - Firework shells carrying the sealed ashes of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson arrived in an armored truck at his mountain home as final preparations were being made for his star-studded farewell. The shells were scheduled to be launched Saturday night from a 150- foot-tall monument erected behind Thompson's house in Woody Creek, just outside Aspen. The event will be private, open to about 250 invited guests including Thompson's longtime illustrator, Ralph Steadman, and actors Sean Penn and Johnny Depp. "We haven't noticed a lot of curiosity seekers or pilgrims, but the...

DENVER — Firework shells carrying the sealed ashes of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson (search) arrived in an armored truck at his mountain home as final preparations were being made for his star-studded farewell.

WOODY CREEK, Colo. - Iconoclastic journalist Hunter S. Thompson would have loved the 153-foot tower built to blast his ashes into the sky, said one of his many friends and admirers gathered for an unsolemn farewell. "It's a beautiful structure. Of course, he would not have been able to resist putting a few holes into it," said Michael Cleverly, referring to his former neighbor's love of shooting guns. "But it weighs several tons, so it could handle a few holes." The counterculture author killed himself six months ago at his home near Aspen. His ashes, intermingled with fireworks, were to...

He lived by the gun and he died by the gun. Now the late writer Hunter S Thompson, who shot himself in February, is to be blasted from a cannon from the back garden of his home in the hills of Aspen, Colorado. Thompson's ashes have been packed into firework casings and will be dispersed today from 34 different shells fired from a gun barrel mounted on top of a 150-foot high monument. Article continues The monument, in the form of a clenched fist made symmetrical by the addition of a second thumb, is modelled on Thompson's gonzo logo. "We...

Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's final journey began early today as his ashes left New Castle packed in 34 fireworks shells. The Thompson family hired fireworks giant Zambelli Internationale to fulfill the writer's last wish of having his ashes scattered in a fireworks show over his Owl Farm estate in Woody Creek, Colo., near Aspen. "We've been working on this for seven to eight months, since he passed away," company spokeswoman Marcy Zambelli said Tuesday. "This would probably rank as one of the most unusual requests we've had." Zambelli workers custom-designed the brown paper cylindrical shells, which will be part...

Organizers of a memorial for Hunter S. Thompson plan to erect a 150-foot structure — courtesy of actor Johnny Depp — to shoot the gonzo journalist's ashes onto his ranch near here. Friends and acquaintances gathered Thursday to discuss the Aug. 20 invitation-only service, which will be six months after Thompson shot himself in his Woody Creek home. Jon Equis, the event producer working with Thompson's family, said the tower will be 12 feet wide at the base and 8 feet wide at the top, where a cannon will be placed. Depp, who portrayed the author in the movie version...

Has suicide become the pop culture flavor of the month? Recent weeks produced an odd flurry of news stories suggesting that the notion of taking your own life suddenly seems courageous, respectable, even chic. Consider the pathetic death of acclaimed "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson. It provoked wildly inflated estimations of his artistry — Tom Wolfe anointed him the past century's "greatest comic writer in English" — as well as mostly admiring remarks from his family about his decision to shoot a bullet into his head at age 67. "This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure,"...

On February 20, two 1960s cultural icons died: journalist Hunter S. Thompson and actress Sandra Dee. The days following their deaths were filled with eulogies about their lives and careers—eulogies that say much more about us than about the deceased. Thompson was the inventor of what came to be known as “gonzo journalism.” Like the so-called “new journalism,” pioneered by Tom Wolfe and others, “gonzo journalism” put the writer at the center of the story. But unlike Wolfe and company, you could never be sure whether what Thompson was describing actually ever happened. That’s mostly because, as he told us,...

If what was before the house was just the formal news bulletin, a famous person who had left Earth for other bournes, then OK, let him go with conventional solemnities. I once attended funeral services at which the rabbi didn't remember the name of the deceased, so that he mourned the passage of Priscilla, remarking the good she had left behind in her lifetime -- never mind that the lady who lay in the coffin was called Jane; never mind, the incantations were generic. But Hunter Thompson would never be confused with anyone else, and when his wife was led...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Hunter S. Thompson's body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter with the word "counselor" typed in the center of the page, according to sheriff's reports. The word was typed on stationery from the Fourth Amendment Foundation, which was started to defend victims of unwarranted search and seizure, according to reports released Tuesday. It was not immediately known what, if any, significance the word had to the founder of "gonzo" journalism or to his family. Juan Thompson found his father dead Feb. 20 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the...

'Writer Hunter S. Thompson was on the phone with his wife last month when he decided to terminate more than the call. He ate the .45 caliber pistol he'd been fondling..' snip 'I didn't need to read his stuff to keep up with the latest Democrat talking points. One can do that merely by watching the networks' evening newscasts. Thompson was a longtime Leftie who admired Fidel Castro. A few months ago in Rolling Stone he wrote of his meeting with "my man" John Kerry: "I told him that Bush's vicious goons in the White House are perfectly capable of...