Fear and Loathing...

I found a copy of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing: The Campaign Trail '72 aboard Tranquilo and was able to read much of it when not trying to barf...and then I stole it to take home and finish. Um...holy appropriate reading for right f-ing now. Even if you're not a gonzo fan, this insider look at the seamy side of campaigning for president in these United States during war time is as relevant now as it was in the waning months of 1972 when the good doctor laid it down. Much of what he has to say is a serious bummer but nothing surprising when you consider how disillusioned we have become since then (remember, this was just before Nixon's Watergate scandal, years before Reagan sold our pride, and decades before our current bastard president put the final torch to our national trust in presidents in general). Well, I would write more on this but I must be off to a barbeque in honor of yet another soldier heading off for Iraq... in the meantime please try to find a copy and give her a read.