Christopher Hitchens Dead

[Malthus]

No, I think we simply acknowledge that he's dead and secretly rejoice (with the requisite guilt) that another douchebag is gone.

We already did that, when you ragequit the forum.  Didn't take. 

If Slargos did not exist, we would have to invent him. 

[FunkMonk]

I read his book Letters to a Young Contrarian as a kid and it was one of the first books that affected how I thought.
His appearances on television as a talking head were always so amusing.

Fuck. 

[Jacob]

I don't see any inherent religious significance to the term "rest in peace".

The things you don't see could fill a portly library.

I'd like it if you went to that library.

[Slargos]

I don't see any inherent religious significance to the term "rest in peace".

The things you don't see could fill a portly library.

I'd like it if you went to that library.

That can be easily arranged. Just stop coming here. But as with everything else, you're too weak-willed to actually go the distance required.

[grumbler]

I'd like it if you went to that library.

That can be easily arranged. Just stop coming here. But as with everything else, you're too weak-willed to actually go the distance required.

Boy.

I'll bet that left a mark.

Not.

[Slargos]

I'd like it if you went to that library.

That can be easily arranged. Just stop coming here. But as with everything else, you're too weak-willed to actually go the distance required.

Boy.

I'll bet that left a mark.

Not.

Old man.

That left a mark.

Not.

[Jacob]

Slargos, if you weren't so weak-willed you might be able to come up with original content for your posts.

[PRC]

Hitchens was great.  I liked David Frum's article on his passing: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/16/david-frum-on-christopher-hitchens-a-man-of-moral-clarity/

A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach's Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.

"You will behave, won't you?" Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club. No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded: "Do you have a kosher menu?"

[Eddie Teach]

Even the most boring heaven imaginable can't be as peaceful as oblivion.

[Martinus]

I think he was one of the very few public figures who never seemed to compromise their beliefs just to be on the right side of the party line. He will be missed.

[Capetan Mihali]

Even though it comes from the keys of David Frum:

A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach's Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.

"You will behave, won't you?" Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club. No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded: "Do you have a kosher menu?

[Sheilbh]

Even though it comes from the keys of David Frum:

Apparently after his visit they also instituted a strict no journalists policy

[Martinus]

Btw, wtf, you can have "no Jews allowed" clubs in the US? 

[Viking]

Btw, wtf, you can have "no Jews allowed" clubs in the US? 

it was an issue before, but now there are a few jewish members, but no blacks.

Btw, wtf, how can you discriminate against jews in Palm Beach Florida?

[Eddie Teach]

I'd like it if you went to that library.

That can be easily arranged. Just stop coming here. But as with everything else, you're too weak-willed to actually go the distance required.

So if Jacob stops coming here that will make you read more?