Forty years of fear and loathing

Hunter S. Thompson on football and Democracy, 1973

Somehow I am watching NFL football and listening to Dick Gregory in January 1972 at UCLA, but was dictating to my handheld Hunter S. Thompson about the Washington football team and Richard Nixon, Edward Muskie, Edward Bennett Williams, Dave Gurgin, pp 38-41 of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 2010, Bill Kilmer, Dick Gregory;

Those poor bastards could not have known what they were doing when they croaked a Doctor of Journalism out of the press box.

Gregory eerily says some of the same things: even by 1972 the press was run by a bunch of crackers and Nazi-sympathizers.

What was the thing about an ex-Army PhD from Stanford causing a ruckus at bands, allegedly put on the case by the FBI?

About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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