It is interesting to observe the FR reaction to the news of Hunter S. Thompson's suicide. The saddest thing is the ignorant hatefulness expressed toward him by those who know very little about him. He was NOT a communist or a hippie. If any label applied, he was a Libertarian. He loved freedom and the rights of the individual. He held the 2d Amendment close to his heart. I grew up with him (reading him) along with many others. Although I am a life-long conservative Republican who won several medals in Viet Nam, I laughed at his pillories of Nixon. I celebrated his wedding with a beautiful woman >30 years younger, because I followed a similar flight path. But his love for this woman was what killed him in the end; he could not draw her any closer than the spirit of freedom he so loved. He was an American Original in the vein of Thomas Paine, Samuel Clemens, and H. L. Mencken. He will be missed.
and how vain he was...eating his .45 instead of his .44 magnum to leave a prettier face.