Don’t worry, boys, we’ll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever – Saul Alinsky to his staff shortly before his death, June 1972.
Maybe the who secret of turning a crowd on is getting turned on yourself by the crowd.
Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.
I am not a Criminal, by trade, but over the years I have developed a distinctly criminal nervous system. Some people might call it paranoia, but I have lived long enough to know that there is no such thing as paranoia. Not in the 21st Century. No. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
Being arrested in any airport is bad, but being arrested in the Miami airport is terrifying.
When this war goes into the history books, the United States Air Force will rank as the most efficient gang of murderers in the history of man.
It is a straight shot from Cancun to Havana, sixty-six minutes by jet plane across the Gulf of Mexico with a Soviet-blonde stewardess serving free rum and synthetic ham and cheese sandwiches.
The Air Force has never valued a sense of humor in its career men, and in high-risk fields like flight testing, a sense of the absurd will cripple a man’s future just as surely as an LSD habit.
And only those who can see above and beyond the American goal of respectable mediocrity can enjoy a life that leads to anything but a struggle to attain that end.
What election?” he asked. “Never mind,” I said. “I was only kidding.” One.
I got a lady who liked George because she said he knew how to tie his tie right,” said the black girl. “Gloria Steinem showed him how to tie it. You should have seen how he tied it before that.
The daily diet is lean for the infantry.
Few girls look with favor on a man of my stripe, a brutalizer of old people.
They don’t expect to win anything, but on the other hand, they have nothing to lose.
With apologies to Austin Ruse and the National Review, it’s passages like this, not any endorsement of the drug-fueled, last-minute allnighter, that explain why Hunter Thompson will always be celebrated by young people. It had nothing to do with drugs, the F word, or being cool, and everything to do with the fact that Thompson never lost his sense of appropriate outrage, never fell into the trap of accepting that moral compromise was somehow a sign of growth and adulthood. Both.
Newt Gingrich had his victory, too. Remember the Republican Revolution of 1994? Now the only people who still have any respect for it are cops, preachers, and creeps who hang out on the fringes of Klan rallies and worship Charlton Heston.
I can’t recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn’t let me eat.
Animals don’t hire lawyers.
A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.
The trick is to control them without any provocation, but outlaws are very easily provoked.