In memorium...

HUNTER S. THOMPSON
1937-2005

He shot himself.
He KILLED HIMSELF by choice.
How does one survive that many mild-altering drugs in deadly doses,
and then CHOOSE to leave existence like that?

I will concede, I was never a massive fan...
but he was an indesputably avant-garde and significant
journalist and novelist.
He was the culmination of a strident, desperate revolution
in American pop-culture.
He was a necessity, and for that we shall thank him.

It will be impossible to forget him.
And no one of us could hope for any less from our lives.