Continuing with the "All Thompson, All The Time" theme this week on FR, here is yet another article. Love 'em or hate 'em, Fred has a unique way of interpreting the view through the looking glass.
Apologies if this has been previously posted; I looked & looked (still don't believe it hasn't already been posted . . .)
1 posted on
02/26/2005 9:53:48 AM PST by
BraveMan
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To: BraveMan
That whole era can be summed up by the song "I went thru the desert on a horse with no name..." You listen to that song and say, what the hell is that all about? Weird shit.
26 posted on
02/26/2005 11:42:09 AM PST by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: BraveMan
Continuing with the "All Thompson, All The Time" theme this week on FR All rather amusing to me.
I suffered through the dreadful sixties
but fortunately never heard of Hunter Thomson
until last week.
I didn't have a clue who he was
and I am rather thankful for that.
28 posted on
02/26/2005 11:53:47 AM PST by
Allan
To: BraveMan
Fred - only cowards live in the past. Quit romantizicing a horrible time in American history - drugs, sexual disease, rampant crime (see burning cities), creation of a welfare state, lack of respect for authority, etc.
These kids of the 60s were a bunch of spoiled brats. And now these divorce idiots have given America a generation of wacked out kids, who I can only pray will see the light and distance themselves from their parents' false notion of self-indulgence and self-importance.
30 posted on
02/26/2005 12:00:07 PM PST by
GianniV
To: BraveMan
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.
33 posted on
02/26/2005 11:24:21 PM PST by
GRANGER
(Earth First -- We'll log the other planets later.)
To: BraveMan
HST was second rate sober and only appealed to drug users and beatniks when he wrote high. He made no great contribution to journalism except that he wrote from a perspective of fantasy rather than fact most of the time. How can anyone truly believe that a person whacked out on 40 hits of LSD could be speaking anything but total bull ____.
35 posted on
03/10/2005 2:26:57 PM PST by
phoenix0468
(http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
To: BraveMan
"The Sixties look drab nowunkempt Manson girls, the lost and unhappy, kids bleak and bleary-brained after waking up with too many strangers in too many sour crash pads. There was that. It was not a time for the weak-minded."
The first sentence describes the young adults of the sixties as weak minded, the last says it was not a time for it. Both are true, and that in and of itself sums up the failure of the sixties. If young adults would have been joining in and working for constructive change instead of "Dropping Acid, and Dropping Out" as the old saying went (I may have misquoted it, but it is close enough), then Vietnam would have either ended with victory or much earlier than it did. The same thing is happening today from the left. Instead of coming up with valid logical arguments against the war in Iraq, they keep attacking events, people, and organizations that don't jive with their thinking. If their is a reason for something being bad, such as the war in Iraq, then come up with a valid reason. Don't just say, "it's bad, people are dying, it costs too much, Mr. Bush this, and Sec. Rumsfeld that." I am sick and tired of beatniks, hippies, and commie sympathizers spouting crap to denigrate authority.
36 posted on
03/10/2005 2:37:44 PM PST by
phoenix0468
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To: BraveMan
I knew this sh!t would happen...............FRegards
39 posted on
08/21/2005 9:50:17 PM PDT by
gonzo
(My eyes always water-up when I'm having sex. Must be that damned pepper-spray those broads use...)
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