Gore Vidal 1925-2012
We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic. Famed American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, critic, provocateur and political activist, Gore Vidal, has passed away at the age of 86 years old. Vidal died at his Hollywood Hills, […]
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Hunter S. Thompson
It’s Hunter S. Thompson‘s birthday today, he would have been 75 years old. It just occurred to me he offed himself at a pretty early age, 67. At least he went out the way he wanted to; I can respect him for that. So here’s a host of images related to the man, hero, author, […]
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Christopher Hitchens 1949–2011
Christopher Eric Hitchens, invaluable and renowned English author, critic and journalist whose books, essays, musings, writings and journalistic career spanned more than forty years, has passed away. He had been a columnist and literary critic at numerous prestigious periodicals and sites such as The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, and Free Inquiry. […]
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