Nixon's spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives -- whether you're me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin's daughter or your fiancee's 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don't even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.
- Hunter S. Thompson, He Was a Crook, from Rolling Stone, June 16 1994

If you've gotten a copy of the latest Oakenfold trance album Bunkka, you'd notice track 6 is a song entitled Nixon's Spirit sampling Hunter S. Thompson. Other folks have sampled Kurt Vonnegut too... who else next? Is this a way to introduce writers to the younger generation now, slyly inserting their words into songs? I doubt it works, though it's nice to put a voice to the rants.