The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.


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If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
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February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing...
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Buy the ticket take the Ride
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Good people drink good beer.
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It never got weird enough for me.
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Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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was doldrums time.
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Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear is just another word for ignorance
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die
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We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
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This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
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Still humping the American Dream
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
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