On Hunter S. Thompson and More

Over at National Review, John Loftus has a piece on Hunter S. Thompson and more.

Here’s one paragraph:

Gone are the days when a writer like Thompson, an unparalleled personality with an insatiable appetite for mind-warping drugs, could prowl the earth. His crackling prose, as wild as his personality, thrust the reader into a different reality. His politics leaned left, though it never gave him the excuse to chide and playact revolutionary. When the weird got going, the weird got pro, and Thompson was terribly weird, a misfit professional, a towering American literary hero, and — to some extent — an aesthete.