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Hitch 22 was quality too.
RIP. Hope he has a great afterlife.
Champion bloke. Could murder ****s in debate.
Hitch 22 was quality too.
RIP. Hope he has a great afterlife.
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams
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Know him mainly for his thoughts on (or against) religion and enjoyed a lot of what he had to write. RIP.
Celebrating the defining moments of CW:
JMAS- What a guyJono: And no one likes your idea because its ****ty American poo.
Nnanden: Same, but that's because Andy OWNS MY SOUL
silentstriker: I'll start fishing for compliments when I can see all of my junk when I look down.
Have you been tested?
In memory of Fardin Qayyumi, a true legend of CW
For some utterly depressing reading.
Christopher Hitchens Takes on Nietzsche: Am I Really Stronger? | Culture | Vanity Fair
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
Too many bones, not enough CASH!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwgu8_b0Vw
RIP Craig
He's either saying "****! I was wrong!" or nothing at all.
RIP to his friends and family.
RIP. Was incredibly contentious but a true great of the written word. Too young
Batsman I tolerate: V. Richards, S. Tendulkar, E. Morgan, N. Hussain. KEVIN O F******* BRIEN
RIP. Great mind, even if he did go a little neo-con after 9/11.
Reminds me of the old joke about an atheist at his own funeral: all dressed up and nowhere to go.
- As featured in The Independent.
"This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers."
- Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads
Never liked him but was one of the greatest debaters and intellectuals of our times. At least he enjoyed his life to the full and didn't give a **** what anyone thought.
Never in a million years would I have thought Brumby to admit this!!!!!!
Yes that was a shame. I remember when he used to support the Palestinians and so on, but never supported Iraq during the US invasion.
Loved the debate he had with Galloway (which I think Galloway won).
One of the best. He just destroyed people with his arguments. Will be missed.
"The future light cone of the next Indian fast bowler is exactly the same as the past light cone of the previous one"
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
Why Christopher Hitchens Mattered | Reuters
From the article:
I remember when Christopher Hitchens first said that if you gave Jerry Falwell an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.Once in a debate in San Diego I said something about the limitations of science to which he objected. “I have been at many podiums with the Rabbi” he said, “and this is so egregious a statement that I am going to give him a chance to retract it before I have to refute it.”
The man was always quality.
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Was really arrogant though.
Why? He took on the arrogant. There's nothing so arrogant as claiming you have divine knowledge and revelation, that you're one of God's chosen people and the rest of us just didn't get the memo. I don't see why Hitchens is the arrogant one.
One of the finest orators of our time, and will be missed. I didn't agree with a lot of what he said - his support for war on abstract concepts in particular - but I'd be lying if I said he didn't inspire me as well.
Maybe we wouldn't be so quick to fill buckets with filth if we knew they had a soul. Or maybe that's what they're into. Ain't no way to get inside a bucket's mind.
Not everyone he argued thought they were amongst the chosen people. Hitchens was one of those Atheists who wanted to convert people from their beliefs. That is arrogance.
RIP. Was very sad to hear about his death.
Not someone I always agreed with, but you had to respect him, and he was a very entertaining writer.
Why Orwell Matters is a great read for anyone interested in Orwell as a writer, incidentally. Nice title for that obit.
I know a place where a royal flush
Can never beat a pair
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