Gonzo

I was reading "Fear and Loathing in the Bunker" last night, a January 1, 1974 New York Times article (reprinted in The Great Shark Hunt) where Hunter S. Thompson writes:

This is the horror of American politics today - not that Richard Nixon and his fixers have been crippled, convicted, indicted, disgraced and even jailed - but that the only available alternatives are not much better; the same dim collection of burned-out hacks who have been fouling our air with their gibberish for the last twenty years.

I couldn't help but notice that his words still ring true three decades after he penned them. Bush cheated his way into office, but survives as leader of the free world. The liberals cheated Canadian taxpayers out of billions of dollars, but remain ahead in the polls. The alternatives? A wishy-washy Democrat and a dorky Conservative. The old adage is true - history does indeed repeat itself.