Right now for fun I'm coding a Java program that will embrace text in .xml tags. I haven't been reading HST for a while. Interestingly, my friend who is also reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is starting to have doubts about enrolling for grad school at the Humphrey Center School of Public Policy. She is concerned about how Hunters S Thompson portrays The Hube. I've been beginning to question the love and respect that Minneapolis holds for HHH as well. It is really creepy that everything seems to have an HHH prefix if he was not the nice decent guy that everyone except HST thinks he was. I feel like he bamboozled the populus.
Posted by pede0252 at August 12, 2004 1:27 PMThe view of Hunter Thompson notwithstanding, HHH will always be worthy of whatever respect and belated affection is sent in his direction.
Understand ... Thompson's view of HHH is reflective ONLY of the position that HHH was in with respect to the Vietnam war as LBJ's VP.
He does not give him credit for being a committed visionary on civil rights and other important issues of his time.
Posted by: Keith Dinsmore at March 7, 2005 6:45 PM