On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need. - Hunter S. Thompson

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place. This is not going to be like Daddy's War, old sport. He actually won, and he still got run out of the White House nine months later.. . The whole thing sucks. It was wrong from the start, and it is getting wronger by the hour.

I blew the horn a few times, hoping to call up an iguana. Get the buggers moving. They were out there, I knew, in that goddamn sea of cactus — hunkered down, barely breathing, and every one of the stinking little bastards was loaded with deadly poison.