Comments on: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Writer, 1939 (?) – 2005 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2881.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:44:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Charles http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2881.html/comment-page-1#comment-9642 Charles Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:48:29 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002881.php#comment-9642 As a PS to my thoughts above, seeing HST in this light makes sense of the way he was so obsessed with Nixon - while he broke the old liberal majority and paved the way for Reagan/Bush I and the 1994 Congressional victory, he was still a representative of the old, big-government Republicanism. Though I doubt whether HST had any time for Reagan. As a PS to my thoughts above, seeing HST in this light makes sense of the way he was so obsessed with Nixon – while he broke the old liberal majority and paved the way for Reagan/Bush I and the 1994 Congressional victory, he was still a representative of the old, big-government Republicanism. Though I doubt whether HST had any time for Reagan.

]]> By: Charles http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2881.html/comment-page-1#comment-9641 Charles Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:44:21 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002881.php#comment-9641 This is thought-provoking and your reflections on the 1960s rebellion ring true. I haven't read HST yet, but I remember some years ago reading a description of him on his farm in Colorado, raising his savage dogs and packing guns at all times. I thought he sounded much like a classic right-winger. This post makes sense of that impression. Re the alliance of corporate managerialism and liberal statism: there was a kind of elitist arrogance in thinking that they were the experts with the solutions for all. I find it interesting that McNamara came from Ford Motor, when the big companies were in the age of the "Organisation Man". Even more intriguing is the post-administration career of McGeorge Bundy. If I recall this correctly, his time in the Ford Foundation shows us elite managerial liberalism in its decadence (perhaps showing its a post-Vietnam loss of confidence?), funding noxious radicals and paying off Black Panther-like thugs to "keep the peace" in the inner cities. This is thought-provoking and your reflections on the 1960s rebellion ring true. I haven’t read HST yet, but I remember some years ago reading a description of him on his farm in Colorado, raising his savage dogs and packing guns at all times. I thought he sounded much like a classic right-winger. This post makes sense of that impression.

Re the alliance of corporate managerialism and liberal statism: there was a kind of elitist arrogance in thinking that they were the experts with the solutions for all. I find it interesting that McNamara came from Ford Motor, when the big companies were in the age of the “Organisation Man”. Even more intriguing is the post-administration career of McGeorge Bundy. If I recall this correctly, his time in the Ford Foundation shows us elite managerial liberalism in its decadence (perhaps showing its a post-Vietnam loss of confidence?), funding noxious radicals and paying off Black Panther-like thugs to “keep the peace” in the inner cities.

]]> By: Lex http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2881.html/comment-page-1#comment-9640 Lex Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:38:53 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002881.php#comment-9640 Been busy, Ginny. Still busy. Will probably submerge again for a while. But y'all have been keeping it going just fine. Been busy, Ginny. Still busy.

Will probably submerge again for a while.

But y’all have been keeping it going just fine.

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2881.html/comment-page-1#comment-9639 Ginny Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:31:14 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002881.php#comment-9639 Welcome voice. Welcome voice.

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