[Dane]

his heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

Well this discription does remind one of dumocrats

No wonder he was such a big kerry supporter.

ESPN: Kerry will come through(Hunter S. Thompson)

[chronic_loser]

He was not so much pro-Kerry as he was VEHEMENTLY anti Bush..., and not just anti W, wither.

He loathed (pardon the pun) the entire Bush family. A conspiracy addled guy like him viewed the clan as a machiavellian dynasty, much like the Kennedys.

He was howlingly funny, and a great writer. I liked him because he was not one of those mewling whining self destructive types who constantly bawls out about the pain he is in, and then goes out to do some more idiocy that brings pain to himself. He was coarse, bitter, cynical, wigged out, incisive, astute, and a delight to read.

The fact that he rejected truth, God, and meaning automatically relegated his life to a fringe existence, and it was sad, of course. That made him similiar to today's "liberal" in that they share the same worldview. However, he despised the left and held them in almost as much contempt as freepers do.

He was a wonderfully talented man. I will miss his stuff.