Does anyone wonder what Christopher Hitchens would be saying about all this?
Yes, I know he had a lot of progressive enemies and I know he was divisive, could be a dick, and he loathed the Clintons. Still, I miss his voice. I miss him.
= new reply since forum marked as read
...pulling a Dennis Miller or Geraldo Rivera - I envision him becoming a Trump supporter, I mean.
Hitchens was many things, definitely a crotchety person, but he was still a progressive. His support for the US Constitution very much aligns with mine. He was demonstrably wrong about Iraq, but that in no way detracts from his eloquence nor his debate abilities. Notably, he was noted as a very gracious and polite person. I can easily forgive him for his meddling with libertarianism.
His polemics were legendary. For instance this. On Jerry Falwell's death he said on live TV, "If they had given him an enema he could have been buried in a matchbox."
Read his book, God is not Great sometime. It is a wonderful and honest polemic. During his nationwide book tour he purposefully asked his publisher to guide him through the Deep South of the USA where he would debate Christian apologists at every stop always to packed venues. Often these events were so well attended that the apologist would ask Hitch to extend his stay for a repeat on the next night. Hitch accommodated those requests more than once.
Outside of his somewhat gruff exterior, Hitchens was a very gracious, polite, and nice person.
I miss him a lot. We lost a good one.
He was brilliant. Often an asshole, but brilliant.
some of which were wonderfully enjoyable. I'd agree completely with some, and then he'd lose me as he made the mistake (imo, of course 
) of not stopping while he was ahead. Far more clever than wise.
And that his troublemaking voice is not added to all the trouble we already have...well, something to be glad off, even as we regret not having him. Hitchens was for good times, to help us question our smugness, not a provider of answers in bad times.
I admit I found him too irritating and intolerant to read more than occasional articles, and the first few chapters of a book involving religion that I made the mistake of actually purchasing. Can't remember the title, but it's in my shelves somewhere. Waiting to be weeded on our next move. Or maybe I'll let our children do it.
But I found this description of W that pretty much fits a good half of all conservatives: “He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.” The "abnormally unintelligent," of course, a function of all the rest.
And this, "The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics." At least he had plenty of opportunity to sample before settling on those.
I don't know how to x-post, though.
