Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger ponders the timelessness of Hunter S. Thompson’s “blistering attacks on the status quo” and their applicability to today’s political landscape. He also reminds us of the “incredibly bullish” fundamentals for silver and lays out the evidence for why this precious metal is on its way to $25/ounce by mid-year.
Being a teenager in the 1960s, my early formative years were all about the Beatles, JFK’s assassination, sex, drugs, rock and roll, and hockey, but when it came to entertaining myself, thanks to my mother, who was a voracious reader, I learned to love to read books. I remember the day that Mum handed me Ian Fleming”s “To Russia with Love” and since I was barely into my teens, I think it was the first time I was ever introduced to soft “porn” (which was predominant in all of the Bond books), which may have been Mum’s way of quietly giving me a Sex Ed lesson. As I grew older and moved away at 16 to play junior hockey with and against men in their 20s, I would ride the buses between St. Catharines and Ottawa with two or three paperbacks tucked into the zipper compartment of my carry-on bag.
“‘Whoever wins becomes so immensely powerful, like Nixon is now, that when you vote for President today you’re talking about giving a man dictatorial power for four years.'”
Later in university, the road trips were usually on airplanes and buses where my preferred reading topics included J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” but nothing captured my heightened appreciation of depravity in humor and journalism more than Hunter S. Thompson’s many works ranging from his anecdotal account of life with the Hells’s Angels (1967) to the 1972 Nixon-bashing “Fear and Loathing on …read more