Yeah, I know that title caught your attention. It caught mine when I was looking at other books recommended for me on Amazon.com after purchasing The Boys on the Bus. Hunter S. Thompson's New York Times bestseller Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie offers an interesting view of the 1992 presidential race between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

When I first got the book, I opened it up to a random page, and the first thing I read on the page was oddly comparable to the situation America faces with this election. In a letter to co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone Jann Wenner, Thomspon wrote:

"Okay. We still have a problem with my inability to explain why I feel very strongly about voting for Bill Clinton on November 3--except that four more years of the Reagan-Bush band will mean the death of hope and loss of any sense of possibility in politics for a whole generation that desperately needs that fix and will wither on the vine without it."

Hope seems to be a popular political word...even 16 years ago.