We've Lost Christopher Hitchens

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Schaller on December 16, 2011 at 9:42am

A remarkable man, an amazing mind, an eviscerating wit. We were lucky to have had his insightful reasoning in the face of a media that expounds upon fantasies.

Cheers, Mr. Hitchens, I will certainly raise a glass of Scotch in your honor this evening.

Permalink Reply by Alice on December 16, 2011 at 4:03pm

Thank you for all you had to give to us all....  you have died too soon, we will miss you and mourn your dying, too young, so sad - wish you could have stayed much longer and given us much more - I hope your pain was minimal - and you felt all the love we have to give you......  and found peace on that moment of death :)

Permalink Reply by Gordon Spofford on December 17, 2011 at 11:42am

Quite possibly the most sane man in America.

Permalink Reply by Mark R. Stevens on December 17, 2011 at 12:10pm

There have been a few times in my life that I actually wished there was a god. Once was when Frank Zappa died and again today. Can you imagine the look on that bastards face when he learns that Hitch is at the gate?

Permalink Reply by Hugh Kramer on December 17, 2011 at 12:42pm

Christopher Hitchens, one of the great voices of reason of our age, is dead at the age of 62 from esophageal cancer. It was always a pleasure and an education to listen to him speak or read what he wrote even when I disagreed with him. I never met him personally but I do have an anecdote about *almost* meeting him. It was when I was a volunteer at an atheist convention he was speaking at. Margaret Downey, who was running the convention, asked me what job I wanted there. Remembering Hitch's reputation as an indefatigable tippler, I grinned and told her that I wanted to be Christopher Hitchen's drink caddy. I was well-qualified for the job, I added, because I had just bought a new pair of running shoes.

Margaret, I think, was feeling a bit too harried by responsibility to appreciate my sense of humor and gave me a job working the ticket desk instead. And so, alas, I missed my chance to meet Hitchens personally.

Permalink Reply by Alice on December 17, 2011 at 5:37pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DmK5B7R2dE

Hichens defends America....

Permalink Reply by Alice on December 17, 2011 at 5:54pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nT81KPUNU&feature=related

by 8 mins in - I had a realisation about the context of upset towards american as compared to what is going on in Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Burma......  I know less about Iraq...