Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Matt Welch at Reason has a particularly good HST obit:
There are people, and I have been one of them, who will tell you that Thompson hasn't written anything of transcendent value since 1975. (Leaving aside for the moment that hardly anyone -- let alone his critics -- have ever climbed that particular mountain.) But it speaks volumes about the height of his peak and the mastery of his language that 31 years later he was still one of the handful of writers I can think of with at least a 50 percent chance of making you laugh every time out, even when spitting out political hyperbole in half-cocked ESPN.com "sports" columns.
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