Oh no!
I was really upset when I read that Hunter S. Thompson killed himself. That’s strange — I’ve never read any of his books and I’ve never felt any sort of affinity for him. I guess it’s just good to have a weirdo like that around. I should really get a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, at least. Here’s a quote from the obituary I just read on Yahoo:
“It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible,” quipped Krassner, founder of the leftist publication The Realist and co-founder of the Youth International (YIPPIE) party.
(How come former hippies are always referred to as “quipping”? But that’s off the topic.)
After that story, at the bottom of the Yahoo news page was, “Army Having Difficulty Meeting Goals in Recruiting,” from the Washington Post. At least there’s some good news today!