The Hunter S. Thompson T-Shirt

When Libertas Bella asks you to write about the great Hunter S. Thompson, first you have to get in the right frame of mind. I would have spent all my money on extremely dangerous drugs, but it wasn’t enough to buy even one modestly dangerous drug. Following a presidential campaign trail was another option, but Trump still won’t return my calls after I beat him by four strokes at Cypress Point Club in 1998, and Biden told me to go **** myself. Finally, I tried to spend a couple years on the road with the Hell’s Angels. Unfortunately, I look like a huge nerd, so they wouldn’t have me along.   All of that research would have been for nothing anyway. Thompson is a legend as much as he was a writer, and his style is inimitable. I will never ride around Vegas in the Red Shark with a 357 in the dash while my Samoan attorney does amyls. I go to Costco in my Jetta with a 38 in my waistband while my Laotian girlfriend tells me about her co-worker’s birthday party. But maybe that’s close enough.