farewell christopher hitchens
 

loved to read his articles; i will miss him!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45693527/ns/us_news/


loved the line about the gin.

Was about to post the same....We were talking about him last week...Clyde told Riot 'don't Hitchens this place up'...My son gets Vanity Fair and would send me some of his articles...had to whip out the dictionary to follow him..
Local station replayed an interview with him this morning..

RIP Mr Hitchens...

i would read him on slate-loved his writing, his wit. the word acerbic was the one that most came to my mind! was sad to hear about his diagnosis back when it was announced, he fought the good fight for a while at least.

farewell christopher hitchens
 

Guy stayed on message to the end. He's probably turning God into an atheist about now.


Ocala Mike

"i was dealt a good hand by the cosmos, which doesn't know i exist and won't know when i've gone."

"the only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. it is not a creed. death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of paradise and the dread of hell. life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. there is nothing more; but i want nothing more."

and my favorite:

"human decency is not derived from religion. it precedes it"