Hunter S. Thompson: RIP

Hunter Thompson is dead by his own hand at 67. You can go to virtually any web site and find extensive articles celebrating his writing. One of my favorite quotes comes from a Rolling Stone piece about the last election:

“I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him ‘Mister President,’ and then I felt ashamed.”

HST began his journalism career unlikely enough in the Air Force for a military paper at Eglin AFB in Florida. It seems fitting that one of the last regular outlets for his writing was his Hey Rube column for ESPN. Here’s a piece that Thompson wrote for ESPN that I though was interesting. Tom Wolfe has writen a great piece on HST in today’s Wall Street Journal, but you’ll need to pick one up ’cause those bastages charge for access to their site.