Hunter S. Thompson, last week, on the Bush Administration:

"They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree.

"It is genuinely incredible. The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap war in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgivable sin in America.

"Big darkness, soon come. Take my word for it."