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More from Hunter

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"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us . . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

"Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today -- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. "

Amen.

"I'd blown my mind, couldn't work," he told Playboy. "So finally I just started jerking pages out of my notebook and numbering them and sending them to the printer. I was sure it was the last article I was ever going to do for anybody."

Instead, he said, the story drew raves and he was inundated with letters and phone calls from people calling it "a breakthrough in journalism," an experience he likened to "falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids."

He went on to become a counter cultural hero with books and articles that skewered America's hypocrisy.

Hunter S. Thompson was an early companion in my journey into the "counter culture." I spent many an altered hour, laughing hysterically over Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or enjoying the irony and humor oozing out of his latest article in Rolling Stone. Completely bent, explosively opinionated, and always glancing askance at the world - I'll miss him.

Confessions of a Techno Ho

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Alright. So I'm camped out in the Alaska waiting area at San Jose airport, waiting on a delayed flight to see my bud, Northwest Babe. Although this is one of the smallest, meanest, least interesting waiting areas I've ever spent time in (and I've seen some doosies, believe me), I have managed to score what amounts to a study carrol with a power outlet and a cheap day-pass wireless network. Yes, the entire vacinity reeks of Togo's pastrami (nauseating after a couple of hours), but there's a power outlet!!! I can surf and recharge my iPod :)

Too bad Apple doesn't make a cell phone. The Nokia really clashes with all this white, gleaming technology.

President Bush once asked, "Is our children learning?" No — they isn't. A more appropriate question might be, "Is our teachers teaching?" In four years, you can teach a gorilla sign language. Is it too much to ask that in the same amount of time a kid be taught what those crazy hippies who founded this country had in mind?

Bill Maher, standard-bearer for the cranky, dread-filled Left. Bow before him.

Take That, You Jackels!

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Did my taxes today. May I say, online tax preparation software is an incredibly cool service. It's particularly cool when the system remembers you from the year before and fills in 75% of the info? Way to go, Intuit. Glad you exist.

What was the result? Will I be eating Top Ramen or top sirloin for the next few months? I'm pleased to report that I'm continuing to entertain dreams of surf safari-yoga camp in Mexico . . .

I was in a supermarket recently searching for a brown mustard-and-conditioner in one. It was while I was reading the ingredient label on a jar of Gouldens Dry Scalp Formula that I looked to the children's book rack and there spied the title "My Little Golden Book About God."

Now as anyone knows, my interest in life's headiest metaphysical mystery has led me on some stange journeys; from the highest mountain peaks of Peru to snort crystalized alpaca urine with an Incan shaman to the sewers beneath Istanbul to read 900-year old grafitti scrawled by the heretical Saint Phoqallyall. Having found no theological resolution in these rarified encounters I have left the door open to the chance that sublime truth may be found where I least expect it.

So it was with genuine anticipation that I opened the book, curious to know what the people at Little Golden Books believed small children who stick Beeferoni up their noses could absorb about the Inscrutible One.

You cannot imagine my horror, however, when my eyes met pages filled with saccharine, pastel artwork depicting cold-eyed androids that were clearly not of our realm. In a Beautiful Mind moment of schizophrenic clarity I saw the book for what it was: not a gentle introduction to life's most profound curiosity, but a primer for the parasitic offspring of an invisible invasion!

For the safety of our race (if any still remain) I have translated this book in the hopes that a resistance may arise. Read the baby powder scented Final Solution of our enemies from beyond, otherwise known as : Zogg

Read and ye shall know the truth, dearlings.

Why They Do It

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Sam - let's call our interviewee Sam, it's suitably anonymous - lives in a three-bedroom semi-detached house in London, drives a vintage Jaguar and runs his own company. But "it's not not all rock and roll and big money", says Sam. What isn't? Spamming websites and blogs with text to pump up the search engine rankings of sites pushing PPC (pills, porn and casinos), that's what.

A pox on Sam and all his ilk . . .

Hey! Google! If you're so smart, figure out how to shut these guys down.

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