RIP Christopher Hitchens

What I saw was that drinking made him angry and combative and bullying, often toward people who were way out of his league—elderly guests on the Nation cruise, interns (especially female interns).

post graduate level zing

really who dreamed up this idea of a cruise as fundraiser for a political magazine

just imagining it is so strange and horrible

there should be a short story where it's really some kind of bait and switch and they've all joined the navy reserve or an oil shipping line or something

shanghaied to write spam for the russian mob

I voted for him twice, and I wouldn't want to be at sea w/ Ralph Nader (esp if Jim Hightower was also around)

what u voted twice for ralph nader how has this fact never come out on ilx before???

jk :)

morbs and nader bunked together in the navy how has this fact never come out on ilx before???

haha

i just cannot stop imagining a soused hitchen screaming at a tableful of old lefties just tryna enjoy their chicken a la king and then flipping the table and storming off in disgust

its really amazing

katha pollit clucking in the background

chainsmoking in his cabin angrily writing out a 1200-word screed about the variety show

threatening to quit if pollitt doesnt publish it immediately, on board the ship

puking over the side of the deck while his intern holds his hair

trying to charm an indifferent waitress with a story about dodging a militia in lebanon and then barfing over the side

xp lool

really who dreamed up this idea of a cruise as fundraiser for a political magazine

http://media.salon.com/2010/07/pollster_scott_rasmussen_to_speak_on_national_review_cruise_for_free-460x307.jpg

haha goole

I'm pretty sure couscous is favored over chicken a la king on The Nation cruise.

also Richard Dreyfuss was on it a couple years ago

why was Richard Dreyfuss on some couscous?

Dan crunches on indefinite pronounds like cornflakes.

RICHARD DREYFUSS OVER A BED OF COUSCOUS JOIN US NATION MAGAZINE CRUISE 2012

*pronouns

btw I hate to tell u this year's returned to port yesterday

http://www.nationcruise.com/

lol at puking while an intern holds his hair

http://nearemmaus.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/hitch.jpg?w=690

omg he rode a folding bike, it all makes sense now

he was recreating Lenin's arrival at Finland Station.

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/i_knew_christopher_hitchens_better_than_you/singleton/#comments

Not as funny as I wanted it to be.

still pretty funny

The first time I saw him, he had a bird on each arm and a woman by his side.

Sometimes the cheap laughs are the best.

http://overratedwhitedudes.tumblr.com/post/14311784932/more-lucid-than-the-average-mean-spirited-drunk

overrated tumblr whites

Ron Jeremy? come on, bro.

okay "the MGD 64 of human beings" for McConaughey is pretty funny

yeah honestly I only disagreed with like 3 of them but Ron Jeremy is deserving of his status.

Oh man, I haven't thought about Neil Pollack in years!

neither have i!

I don't have a clue who he is!

he was a thing for a while!

The anthology of american literature is basically pieces like this about/in the style of most major macho literary figures of the 20th century. Since then, I guess he's written a bunch of other funny stuff too.

Yeah, Anthology is hilarious