Hunter S. Thompson

This youtube video is part of a full-length biography of Hunter S. Thompson, a favourite of mine among writers. He was way ahead of his time on environmental issues. He was fighting to keep Aspen a quaint little town full of intellectuals and free of conglomerates and time share ski resorts and stripmalls and capitalist development before anyone else could've conceived what was in store for Aspen. At the beginning of this video, they are talking about the riots and police brutality in Chicago during the Democratic Convention in '68. It was this destruction and political upheaval in the sixties and seventies that inspired him to first try to write about the Death of the American Dream. One can now really see what he was talking about when it comes to the Death of the American Dream. Although who knows what he'd think about Barack Obama. If you check out the beginning of the documentary, you'll hear what Hunter wrote on September 11, and his predictions are eerily accurate.
I was disappointed when I heard that Obama wouldn't be holding anyone accountable for torturing, and that they would continue trials of people in Guantanamo.
However what's as alarming and seemingly under-noticed around us right now of some fucked up political times in Canada. God knows what will happen. I for one am not sure about Micheal Ignatieff. I believe he's better than Stephen goddamn Harper. I was always an NDP guy.