Fear and Loathing

Here it is, my secret life's ambition that I share with no one, by which I mean anyone who'll listen to me, I want to able to write like Hunter S. Thompson. See RollingStone.com: Politics - Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004 Tell the truth, even the ugly parts, especially the ugly parts. He may not be as on as he was back when he was writing about Nixon, but he's certainly a lot more on than he's been since before Clinton was president. with the single exception of his euology for Nixon. Which, for whatever reason, does not seem to be freely available on the web.

And its not the profanity or the ad hominem that I'm talking, it's the honesty.

John Stewart pulled it off last week on his cross-fire appearance. (The link probably won't work, but then you've probably see it already.)

And by "truth", I mean speaking sentences intended to convey accurate information. Now, what accurate information means turns out to be what I spend my time trying to write about, which is a lot duller than pointing out that the rot in this administration is so bad that calling them liars doesn't work, you have to be capable of acknowledging the truth in order to lie.

It also makes me part of the problem.