RIP Christopher Hitchens

uncountable favors for the unimportant graduates of elite universities

he got college kids drunk--awesome!

"my first sanctimonious opinion" for kids to young to have lived through bill hicks

otm http://coreyrobin.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-the-most-provincial-spirit-of-all

RIP, Opinionator.

BigBossOgg : 12/16/11 11:10

Yes, he is certainly in for a surprise, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it glorious.

In fact, I am betting my immortal soul on the probability that he's begging for a chance for just one moment, to warn his brother, warn his friends back here in the realm of the living, of the horrors awaiting non-believers.

Spending eternity in heaven with someone called BigBossOgg sounds like hell to me, so.

c'mon, you could spend all of eternity chasing those goldurned Duke boys thru the swamp

till they crossed county lines

which is apparently some sort of force field

The glee among believers in eternal damnation was utterly predictable here. Now they get to let their imaginations run wild devising gory punishments for Hitchens, for daring to question what they imagine to be true.

foster the sheeple

lol

c'mon, you could spend all of eternity chasing those goldurned Duke boys thru the swamp

― OH NOES, Friday, December 16, 2011 12:45 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i believe you mean the uke boys

hahah I did almost write that

Well I wondered what the other Hitchens was going to say:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2075133/Christopher-Hitchens-death-In-Memoriam-courageous-sibling-Peter-Hitchens.html

ding dong the hitch is dead

A letter from Sully's blog:

I've been reading and enjoying your work for years, but I've never felt compelled to write until now. I know you'll get a million of these, but here's my Hitch story:

I once went to hear Hitchens speak in San Francisco. Afterward, he was signing books. I was broke and didn't have enough money for a book, but I got in line just to thank him for his articles denouncing Kissinger, which meant a lot to me and my parents, who were both deeply affected by the Vietnam War. I told him all this. He listened - he seemed as good at listening as speaking - and he asked me all kinds of questions. We talked for a bit, and finally he asked if he could sign something. I told him I didn't have enough money for a book. Without hesitating, he pulled one off the pile, asked for my parents' names, and inscribed the book to them. One of the best moments of my life. I loved the man. He's left the world to a bunch of fucking lightweights, but we have to try our best.

Similar to my experience.

One of the best moments of my life.

:( :( :(

Yeah, why couldn't that person have had a better life.

seriously

must be all the fucking lightweights

Looking back, I realize now I should have fucked more lightweights.

Perrin has a new piece up:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/12/letter-to-lost-friend.html

We then went to HBO Studios where you were to debate John Podhoretz on Comedy Central. It was a live show. You said "fuck" several times. Moderator Al Franken told you to stop. You replied, "I thought I was allowed to say whatever the fuck I wanted!" The segment ended early.

lol ned p sure perrin is just some guy morbs made up

We are all Dennis Perrin.

its full of stars

I'm not DP but we have the same initials

hitch taught us how politics could be rocknroll

who will teach us how politics can be rickroll

Obama

"Never Gonna Lock You Up"

i remember one july afternoon at a convention center in san antonio the louche figure of hitch was draped over a sedan wth two vassar girls, smoking rollups and downing a magnum of pol roger

a hieratic silence prevailed

'never let the islamo-nazis win', he intoned to the assembled press corps

everyone cheered

hitch was inspirational like that

http://www.thedialecticalplaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Hitchens1.jpg

sweet christ

mine eyes

paging dom

You guys never read his VF piece on his makeover?

Died the day the Iraq War ended, his work complete I guess...

otm http://coreyrobin.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-the-most-provincial-spirit-of-all

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, December 16, 2011 11:00 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

"Only a writer of Hitchens’s talents could do justice to the culture that now so shamefully mourns him."

what sanctimonious garbage

eh supporting the Iraq War is pretty unforgiveable imho

dont be so sanctimonious abt this war that killed hundreds of thousands of people guy jeez

He contained multitudes. Righteous truthsayer, imperial asshole.

no i meant dont be so sanctimonious about ppl expressing (possibly conflicted!) regret about the passing of an interesting and forceful personality

let me do the next part for you:

"did u kno hitler was an interesting and forceful personality mmmmmm ~think about it~"

"a bunch of people got bombed by people that weren't this sad drunk blowhard oh well its sad, he was a alcoholic"

christopher hitchens was a total asshole!

dont use apologetic words like 'forceful' i mean be serious