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Started by Habbaku, December 16, 2011, 12:43:04 AM

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Habbaku

December 16, 2011, 12:43:04 AM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

jimmy olsen

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December 16, 2011, 12:49:28 AM
RIP

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Habbaku

#4
December 16, 2011, 01:00:25 AM
This has been the first "celebrity" death I have actually been affected by in a long time.  I didn't agree with Hitchens a lot of the time, but reading his rants was always entertaining and he always had a take on things that, if not compelling, was at least worth reading.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Syt

#5
December 16, 2011, 01:17:31 AM
[Theist]All dressed up an nowhere to go . . .[/Theist]

:(
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Viking

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December 16, 2011, 01:17:48 AM


Huckesters, liars, con artists and hypocrites all over the world can now breath a sigh of relief. But, as Habbaku suggested, I considered his life when I heard he was sick. He was an atheist activist in the vein of Ingersol, Mencken or Clemens. I can't help but think he was always an american born in an english skin. He battled against lies and for honesty because he thought honesty was in and of itself just better. His greatest achievement was, however, his ability to stand by his principles against his friends.

His life's work was done though. He had not made any new contributions since well before his illness. 
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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Habbaku

#7
December 16, 2011, 01:19:42 AM
Quote from: Viking on December 16, 2011, 01:17:48 AM
He was an atheist activist in the vein of Ingersol, Mencken or Clemens. He battled against lies and for honesty because he thought honesty was in and of itself just better.

Yep.   :(
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

JonasSalk

#8
December 16, 2011, 01:23:17 AM
Quote from: Viking on December 16, 2011, 01:17:48 AMHe was an atheist activist in the vein of Ingersol, Mencken

Two of the best writers very few people these days have ever heard of, much less read. Especially Ingersoll.
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Sheilbh

#9
December 16, 2011, 01:27:52 AM
There's a lovely Christopher Buckley appreciation in the New Yorker. I highly recommend it.
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fhdz

#10
December 16, 2011, 01:56:52 AM
Rest in peace, Christopher.
and the horse you rode in on

The Brain

#11
December 16, 2011, 02:26:28 AM
Didn't read his rants.
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Razgovory

#12
December 16, 2011, 04:42:50 AM Last Edit: December 16, 2011, 04:45:02 AM by Razgovory
He was a lackey of murderous regimes who never lost his love of forced social engineering.  Maybe he can finally meet Trotsky.
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Ideologue

#13
December 16, 2011, 05:26:12 AM
I haven't actually read as much Hitchens as I should have, but I liked him quite a bit.  One of the few genuine anti-fascists left in the world.
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Grey Fox

#14
December 16, 2011, 06:54:43 AM
Now that's sad. :(
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