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April 1, 2012
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By H unter S. Thompson, Astrologist to the Stars!
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Hello there, lonely hearts. Hunter S. here, glancing
down on the cesspool of humanity you have found
yourself drowning in. It’s not all that bad. It actually
looks much better from a distance. Oh, Ghandi just told
me to pass along that saying about being the change
you want to see, although he can’t seem to remember
who said it.
Taurus (April 20-M ay 20) Platitudes are
i.
safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but
truth is something else again.
G em ini (M ay 21-Ju n e 20) Objective
journalism is one of the main reasons
American politics has been allowed to be so
corrupt for so long.
C an cer (June 21-July 22) Life should not
be a journey to the grave with the intention
of arriving safely in a pretty and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and loudly
proclaim ing- “Wow! W hat a Ride!”
211 NW Davis St.
Portland, OR 97209
Leo (July 23-A ug. 22) I have a theory
Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 23) If I’d written
that the truth is never told during the nine-
all the truth I knew for the past ten years,
to-five hours. Hope this helps you.
about 600 people - including me - would be
rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) We are turning
into a nation of whimpering slaves to fear — today. Absolute truth is a very rare and
fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random dangerous commodity in the context of
terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired professional journalism.
because of the plunging economy, fear of
getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly
Capricorn (Dec. 24-Jan. 19) In a closed
getting locked up in a military detention
society where everybody’s guilty, the only
camp on vague charges of being a terrorist
crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves,
sympathizer.
the only final sin is stupidity.
Libra (Sept. 23-O ct. 22) In a nation ruled
by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile— and Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The music
the rest of us are fucked until we can put our
business is a cruel and shallow money
acts together: not necessarily to win, but
trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves
mainly to keep from losing completely. We
owe that to ourselves and our crippled self- and pimps run free, and good men die like
dogs. There’s also a negative side.
image as something better than a nation of
panicked sheep.
Pisces (Feb 19-M arch 20) No man is so
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A man who
foolish but he may sometimes give another
procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably good counsel, and no man so wise that he
lave his choice made for him by
may not easily err if he takes no other
circumstance.
counsel than his own. He that is taught only
by himself has a fool for a master.
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