The Rocky Mountain News reports that the gaudy, explosive sendoff of Hunter Thompson’s ashes near Aspen was also a reunion for Democratic presidential losers and their rather odd and bitter political analysis:

Along more political lines, McGovern recognized Kerry in the audience and said the crowd would be calling him President Kerry if the last election hadn’t been rigged. Then again, he said, that might not be the case if the election before that hadn’t been rigged, too, and Al Gore had won.