HST On Fire!!!

[Champion Jack]

..The real shocker of the week, for me, was and remains the stunning collapse of the evil Bush administration, which I view with mixed feelings.

In truth, I could be a lot happier about the collapse of Bush and his people and his whole house of cars and everything he stands for, if it didn't also mean the certain collapse of the U.S. economy, and the vital infrastructure, and, indeed, the whole "American way of life."

It will not be anything like the collapse and Impeachment of Richard Nixon, which had little or no impact on day-to-day life in this country. Nothing really changed, except Some people went to prison, of course, but that was to be expected, considering the crimes they committed and the shameful damage they caused ... They were criminals, and the righteous American people punished them for it. Our system worked, and we were all heroes.

Ah, but that was twenty-nine (29) years ago, bubba, and many things have changed. The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me, or it may already be too late. The massive plundering of the U.S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport -- we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be -- the end of the world as we knew it.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/

[stopthegop]

1. sorta minor point of fact...

Nixon was never actually impeached

[TXlib]

2. I panicked, thinking you were referring to the Hubble Space Telescope

and assumed by "on fire", you meant something was frying its electronics.

Don't do that to me!

[Richardo]

5. ...and I thought the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman (CVN 75) was on fire

Don't do that to me, either!

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Same here!

I was like..."Oh my god, that's horrible!" and then find out that it's not Hubble.

[Dudley_DUright]

8. I had exactly the same reaction

for me, HST=Hubble Space Telescope. It took me awhile to figure out that HST=Hunter S. Thompson.

[GAspnes]

9. same here!

My first thought was, "well, that settles the repair or retrieve question".

I'm gonna miss the HST, but I'd rather it were eventually and not right now.

[buckfush2]

3. why is one of our greatest living writers on ESPN, for chrissakes?

Seems like he's a natural for Slate or some similar publication, but ESPN????

[On the Road]

10. Well, Hunter Used to Write for a Bowling Magazine in Puerto Rico

and some his best moments were covering motorcycle races or the Kentucky Derby.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I love Hunter, but...

You just don't go around screaming "end of the world" in this crowded theatre we find ourselves in...I almost had a panic attack reading that post.

[Champion Jack]

7. Heh heh heh, better than coffee...