Posted on 02/22/2005 11:43:18 AM PST by CHARLITE
PJ's great, I'll be really interested in seeing what PJ has to say about all this. I always considered the primary difference between the two being that PJ actually sobered up long enough to realize he wasn't liberal (and to not let the drugs fry his abilities).
HST was not worthy to shine PJ O'Rourke's shoes.
They were friends. HST made Werner create the National Affairs desk at Rolling Stone which PJ took over (and for years provided the only thing in RS worth reading).
Tech school degree, probably.
Just a personal aside. Hunter Thompson came to our school to give a speech in the middle 1970s. What I remember most was the fact that he came and sat down with us to have some whiskey shots; he passed up the bong hits. (Yeah, it was the 70s.) I also remember him speaking with a deep irreverence for the ideas and posturing which are now called "liberal" and "progressive." Sadly, the dope and liquor clouded the details of the talk; I regret those choices made in my youth, but Thompson, in his own strange way, put me on the path toward thinking for myself.
and from what I have read...I'm glad I will. :)
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