Photos: No Age, Fucked Up at the Lamar Bridge

“Why am I in papers? I just love it. The only other thing I like is politics, and I’ve never let myself get into that. I think you prostitute your news­papers once you start joining political parties.”

“At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush’s imperial presidency,” we reported in 1992, “the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”

"Do not the dead deserve an accounting at least as irreproachable as the survivors receive with each week’s edi­tion of Billboard?"

"I like the idea of spurting blood. It's like a, God, it's really like a purification, you know, the fountains of blood. It's a personal thing."

The music that accompanied the downfall of a president

On the silver anniversary of Tricky Dick's demise we revisit Tom Carson's barn-burning send-off to the 37th POTUS