The million-pound shithammer

Internets, in these dark and terrible times in which we live, all of y'all should be reading Fear & Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, by the immortal Hunter S. Thompson.

It's his coverage of the 1972 presidential race for Rolling Stone (back when they didn't put teenage hunks of chicken who were in "High School Musical" on the cover), and kids, I would not lie to you -- it's incredibly entertaining and an absolutely crackling read, really a damn great book, but at the same time, given all the parallels between 1972 and current events, can be incredibly depressing and is likely to engender a sense of doom and foreboding in what I imagine to be the DKGOML reader's heart.

So, do read this excellent book -- but first, lay in a supply of whatever food, booze, or Other that comforts you in times of need ...