I didn’t agree with his politics but how could I be anything but saddened by the loss of someone who wrote things like this?
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
The kind of people I spend time with–friends, readers, constituents, etc.–tend to share my uneasy conviction that Democrats are no better than Republicans.
We disagree so violently on almost everything that it’s a real pleasure to drink with him [about Pat Buchanan].
I can only quote Lileks on him:
” File under Capote, Truman – meaning, whatever you thought of the latter-day persona, don’t forget that there was a reason he had a reputation. Read “Hell’s Angels.” That was a man who could hit the keys right.”
Instapundit, whose wife is doing well following surgery to implant a pacemaker, also quotes Lileks. I’m in good company.
[update] The Moderate Voice has a roundup of what other bloggers are saying, and Outside the Beltway has even more.
[update] A good roundup here of some articles by those to whom HST was a ‘native son’.
