The Doctor is In
For my birthday this year, a friend with excellent literary taste gave me Hunter S. Thompson’s latest, Kingdom of Fear. The self-styled doctor of gonzo is worth reading even in his most demented moments – which is to say, most of the time. In this book, amid the occasionally meandering and pointless reminiscences, we come upon terse little gems like this, from the chapter entitled “Jesus Hates Bald Pussy.” After comparing G.W. Bush unfavorably to Richard Nixon (a feat which anyone who knows Thompson’s views of Nixon would find hard to imagine), Doc works himself up into this fine fit of pique. It is worth quoting at length:
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… no redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way or we’ll kill you.
…Who [votes] for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same one who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character… I piss down the throats of these Nazis.
To which I’m sure Dubya and his minions are saying, “sticks and stones… buy that SOB a one-way ticket to Guantanamo.” And that’s the whole problem, isn’t it?
10:19:30 PM 
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