Hunter S. Thompson/ESPN 2

[mikeysnot]

Hi, folks, my name is still Thompson, and I still drink gin with ER Nurses at night -- but in one particular way, I am a New Man, a different man, a more dangerous man than I was the last time we talked. And that was a few weeks ago, eh?

Indeed, I can walk again, and I like it, because last month I felt an acute spasmodic pain in my spine when I walked. There was nothing cute about it, no socially redeeming factor. It just plain sucked.

But I have just returned from an extremely intense few weeks at the world-renowned Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colo. (yes, the same city where Kobe Bryant ...), where I had radical surgery to repair what was beginning to give me some pain. Great pain on some days, and I finally decided to get rid of it.

I am no stranger to organ replacement, and I always find it refreshing, always a happy improvement over Pain.

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[On the Road]

1. HST Has a Big Audience on the ESPN Site

Glad he found someone to keep paying him for his rants.

Like his book on the 72 campaign, this column is less factual and more accurate than anything else on the subject. I've never see anyone who can characterize a situation so vividly.

And the ESPN demographics are interesting -- he can influence some votes.

[mikeysnot]

2. He has been

writting for some time, but Rush gets to comment on football....

[Fovea]

3. That is only fair, Rush looks like a football.

And writing lasts longer, anyway.

[TacticalPeek]

4. right on...

OurCountryIsBetterThanThis

[Alfalfa T. Coleridge]

5. Hunter's getting old

"The Rumsfield-Cheney axis has self-destructed right in front of our eyes, along with the once-proud Perle-Wolfowitz bund that is turning to wax. They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree, between January and July, or even less."

Well, Hunter, you couldn't be more wrong on that last point. The PNAC/JINSA cabal accomplished exactly what they were after: a huge US military deployment just a scud missile away from the Zionist Theme Park formerly known as Palestine.

They didn't get to attack Syria like they wanted, but they can wait a few months for that while Shrubbie deals with N. Korea.

No, Shulsky's OSP didn't blow it - this is just the break between the 1st and 2nd quarters of this game.

Perle and wolfie got just what they wanted - the US will be there keeping a watchful eye on Israel from now 'till Armageddon.

ATC

[Pompitous_Of_Love]

6. I hate it when he pulls his punches

n/t

[Terran]

7. mikeysnot

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