Hunter Thompson shot himself in the head sometime on Saturday and a few things are certain. He was either stoned or hung over, and his work will be forgotten.I still suspect there was some sort of terminal and/or painful illness involved. Eating a shotgun doesn't seem his style, unless that was the case. In which case it totally seems like something he would do.
You can say a lot of things about the guy, and his politics sucked for sure except where guns (possibly the most important issue) were involved. But you couldn't call him fake.
-Eric
It took the DUmmies all of five minutes to conclude that he was murdered on the orders of Karl Rove.
".....I still suspect there was some sort of terminal and/or painful illness involved....."
Depression is painful, and, as shown here, sometimes terminal.
I gotta disagree. The party animal gonzo alcoholic/addict that was Hunter S. Thompson was a fake. It's axiomatic. When you drown yourself in all that booze and wack yourself out with all those drugs for forty years you extinguish your authentic self. That's one of the things boozing is all about -- a flight from self and the construction of an inauthentic persona.
Alcoholics are frightened people. Thompson, for all his bluster and semi-talent with words, was no exception.