@kofiabiney I think even 5-year-old analyses nail it: this was an existential global crusade for a narcissist who needed a defining moment. 5 hours ago
@kofiabiney Isn't that enough? But the casual misogyny, the relentless narcissistic Galahad routine about Clinton, his bullshit about Said. 5 hours ago
Perversely, even as Hitchens went through chemotherapy, I (and others) forgot to constantly throw up—not in solidarity but in opposition. 5 hours ago
You read awful things and remember them and pack those sick feelings away for later and are stunned to find that time wrongly tempered them. 5 hours ago
It's amazing to go back & read his old columns and revivify a loathing for Christopher Hitchens that became nearly a muted hobbyist disdain. 5 hours ago
RIP Christopher Hitchens, Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Interventionism