Tuesday July 06, 2004

The Going Gets Weird

You know we’ve entered desperate times when Hunter S. Thompson starts making sense again. “My final prediction for today is that the U.S. will not send any teams to the Olympic Games this year,” he raves in his latest, pleasingly paranoid ESPN.com column. “And the World Series will also be canceled or at least postponed for a National Security emergency that will never be explained in public until long after George Bush is gone from the White House, which will happen in early November — or at least before Groundhog Day next year. We are all going for a very wild ride for the next few months. So good luck and drink all the cold beer you can get your hands on for as long as necessary to guarantee victory and lasting peace in the nation and the world.”