Legendary writer Thompson dead

Oh, man.

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

Click here for the rest. And go read the mourning at Eschaton.

So...why?

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