Hunter S. Thompsonesque

http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/mortality-strikes/?hp







This article brings me back to the previous blog, lengthy, which is a quote from Hunter S. Thompson on a black-night meeting with Justice Clarence Thomas in Utah, I believe.







When I first read the Hunter S. Thompson piece -- I was up in Canada on vacation -- I wondered how Thompson avoided a libel suit. It's the most incredible piece, accusing Justice Thomas of unbelieveable debauchery and violence.







Reading the reviews of Justice Thomas' new book, I now wonder...maybe Thompson's piece is true!







Justice Thomas is a fascinating and not altogether unsympathetic figure to me, a plaintiff's discrimination lawyer. Some of his employment law opinions are quite good for the plaintiff's bar. Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A., for example http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_00_1853/.