Hunter S. Thompson Dead at 67

Fox News ^ | 21 Feb 05 | AP

[stm]

ASPEN, Colo. — Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

[DB]

The death of Arthur Miller was too much for him...

[iopscusa]

A terminal case of self-fear & loathing?

[MisterRepublican]

PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma) claims another victim. Or maybe it was the years of heavy drug and alcohol abuse.

[stm]

I think he got a bad case of lead poisoning.

[marty60]

I just read a Salon interview with him. What a burnt out hippie, who killed to many brain cells. Trashing american voters, Bush....But he loves Pat buchanan and guns.(obviously)

[Vaquero]

Gonzo to the end......I heard the last thing that went through his mind......

......was his teeth

(recycled Kurt Cobain sick joke)

[bikepacker67]

I wonder if, perhaps, a medical diagnosis of some terminal malady urged ol' Hunt to eat a bullet...

He seemed too much a cranky cynic to take his life because of depression. But a pragmatic choice in the face of incurable lung-cancer sounds about right.

[IronJack]

"Better to burn out than to slowly fade away." -- Neil Young

[stm]

"PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma) claims another victim. Or maybe it was the years of heavy drug and alcohol abuse."

Go over to the DUmmies and see all the wailing and gnashing of teeth. You would have thought the Messiah himself had died. Pathetic, just pathetic. And it was inevitable the BFEE (Bush Family Evil Empire) would be blamed by some left wing conspiratorial nutjob.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1253288&mesg_id=1253288

[OldSmaj]

The death of Arthur Miller was too much for him...

Nah, he found out that his name was not in Paris Hilton's cell phone.

But seriously, does anyone really care?

[Prospero]

He would have written, "he would have wanted it that way."

Does anybody care, you ask...?

I mourn for him, even though he was precisely the venal, violent person his enemy Richard Nixon believed him to be.

I'd probably take a hit of blotter, today, in his honor if I could get my hands on some. But, of course, I don't troll for that crap.

This is a character who lived his life in fear, reveled in it, terrified of his autonomy. A self-confident conservative shouldn't be threatened by the likes of Dr. Thompson. Hell, for Hunter, was Other People.

But this participatory journalism, the Gonzo thing, was authentic rebellion against the monolithic Leftist Corporate "Journalism" that we forget so dominated the old newscycle.

Everyone was so serious at his peak, Left and Right. He, at least, was one left wing writer who didn't pretend or even believe in "objectivity."

If he would have let any of us in, and not chased us off with a shotgun, we might have gotten though to this guy.

As it is, all you Bloggers out there take note. You stand on the shoulders of midgets.

And, believe it or not, it was probably news of the death of Sandra Dee that got him.

[DCPatriot]

I'd love to know how Karl Rove sneaked into the guy's house Sunday night.....

[BenLurkin]

Kerry Will Come Through (By Hunter S. Thompson)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266838/posts

[BenLurkin]

Kerry Will Come Through (By Hunter S. Thompson)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266838/posts

[BenLurkin]

Kinda had the Truman Capote thing going . . .

[paleocon patriarch]

[Defendingliberty]

I have to say it......It was cheaper then moving to Canada....

[Lizavetta]

As a previous article posted on FR said today, he turned himself into a bloody corpse for his wife to find. What a man.

[wideawake]

He was the journalistic equivalent of "Laugh-In" in terms of relevance and insight.