smutmutant mourns the death of this gonzo (not porn) genius

DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/?GT1=6190
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