Jerry Mead

[Thomas]

Yep--there was a man who really was one of a kind. My only reservation about any of the above is Bucko's use of the word enigma to describe Jerry.

I thought Jerry wore his beliefs right out there on his sleeve. I never felt he was hard to understand. He was a lover of freedom, free spiriting, free access to wine, and (as it relates to the Trader) free writers...

To truly illustrate his libertine personality, even as he was on his last breaths, and even after he learned that smoking was part of the cause of his problems, he defended the right of others to smoke tobacco if that is what they wanted to do.