Remembering Hunter Thompson

I got hit with the “How’s your pocketbook?” argument the other day. I replied that it’s actually doing fine, thank you very much. But when nearly sixty percent of American households have less than a thousand dollars in savings, we cannot claim any real national economic strength. Further, considering the erosion of civil rights in this country, we cannot pretend that our pocketbooks are a means to security.

The experience nudged the memory of an old Hunter Thompson quote to the surface, turning up in his 2003 book, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the…