2/20    Hunter S. Thompson, RIP.
        \_ Suicide.  This sucks.  Sucks sucks sucks.
           \_ Is anyone surprised?
              \- this seems an appropriate end. "talkin 'about my generation...
                 hope i die before i get old" and all that. --psb
        \_ "This may be the year when we finally come face to face with
            ourselves; finally just lay back and say it---that we are really
            just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money
            we need to buy guns and no qualms at all about killing anybody
            else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
            -- HST: Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail 1972
        \_ "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high
            powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird
            to live, and too rare to die."
            -- HST: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
        \_ "Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out
            to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars."
            -- HST: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
        \_ "Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."
        \_ "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long
            plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die
            like dogs. There's also a negative side."
            \_ Man, I'm going to start paraphrasing that as my experience
               in the software industry.
        \_ Wow, this is really a loss. If I had some ether, I'd inhale
           it now, in memorium.
        \_ This is really depressing.  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign
           Trail" is one of the best books ever.  Makes you wonder why he
           decided to do it now.
        \_ Who is Hunter Thompson and why should we care?
           \_ He was a writer and journalist.  Whether you love him or not,
              it's hard to argue with the statement that there never has been
              and never will be anyone like him.  For a summary, put his
              name into http://news.google.com, but to really get an idea, go
              read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".
           \_ get a clue.  -tom
              \_ I've never heard of Thompson. Based on a few random
                 links on google he sounds like some half baked reporter
                 type. Yes its sad that he killed himself, but lots of
                 people kill themselves everyday and it doesn't make
                 the motd.
                 \_ Seriously go away.  If you're really curious, go read
                    his stuff and come back.
                 \_ Dude, read him, don't read him, like him, don't
                    like him, whatever. You can do whatever you want.
                    Why does it bother you if those of us who were fans
                    and admirers of him and his work commiserate a bit?
                        - ether man