arraya: Great stuff (as usual). I don’t know about you, but I’m going to miss Hunter S. Thompson, especially the nexus of gonzo journalism, firearms and alcohol.
I wasn’t aware of that quote from Goring. I also didn’t realize he was that politically aware. Of course, that quote was probably made well before he succumbed to drug and alcohol addiction and spent millions of dollars in stolen blood money on his paean to Teutonic virility, his hunting lodge, Karinhall. Little known fact about Goring: He was a fighter ace in WWI who flew with Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron).
Good thing he was such an incompetent buffoon, though, or WWII in Europe might have turned out very differently (and not in a good way).
