Reality has finally caught up with Hunter S Thompson

Reflections on a World Gone Gonzo, From an Expert

Reality has finally caught up with Hunter S. Thompson’s ravings. In "Kingdom of Fear" he writes, "We have Anthrax, we have smallpox, we have very real fears of being blasted into jelly in the privacy of our own homes by bombs from an unseen enemy, or by nerve gas sprayed into our drinking water, or even ripped apart with no warning by our neighbor’s Rottweiler dogs." When the Gonzo Granddad was in his prime, these were the kinds of things he liked to make up….

(NYT Books)