December 16th, 2011 / 3:54 am
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RIP, Christopher Hitchens.

15 Comments

  1. December 16th, 2011 / 5:09 am Ester—

      Fuck. I’m wishing now that I hadn’t visited this place right before bed…to see this sad news. I knew his days were numbered, but… Fuck.

  2. December 16th, 2011 / 11:19 am c2k—

      Dies the same day the US officially announces the end to the war in Iraq.

  3. December 16th, 2011 / 12:43 pm Darby Larson—

      i wonder if he would’ve been okay with the acryn “RIP”. it has catholic origin right? and it implies an eternal.

  4. December 16th, 2011 / 3:24 pm deadgod—

      mushroom cloud
      cake walk
      slam dunk

      MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

  5. December 16th, 2011 / 5:15 pm c2k—

      The checks have cleared.

  6. December 16th, 2011 / 6:44 pm Brooks Sterritt—

      My first thought was: lightning?

  7. December 16th, 2011 / 7:14 pm reynard—

      sixty years of begging the question

  8. December 16th, 2011 / 7:17 pm reynard—

      good thing he’s dead!

  9. December 16th, 2011 / 8:23 pm Matthew Simmons—

      picnic.

  10. December 16th, 2011 / 10:04 pm deadgod—

      [Well, the one block-headed position doesn’t erase all the progressive pressure he accomplished.  Pretty regrettable misadventure, though–to be allied with the Legacy Misunderburnishers in that fuck-up.]

  11. December 17th, 2011 / 10:42 am c2k—

      True.

      “An Unfortunate Coda” – as authored by C.E.H.

      RIP (or its anti-theistic equivalent)

  12. December 17th, 2011 / 10:49 am c2k—

      DBU (Dust Blow Unimpeded)???

  13. December 17th, 2011 / 12:55 pm deadgod—

      “It’s nice to be here.  It’s nice to be anywhere.”

  14. December 17th, 2011 / 1:03 pm deadgod—
  15. December 19th, 2011 / 4:35 pm c2k—

      There was another prickly one by ex-employer The Nation.

      Has Gore Vidal surfaced to comment?