"Quaint and touching"? I would have gone for "stupid and assholish" but that's just me.

[Scuba]

[Moonwalk]

1. That's British sarcasm for you...mild seeming but cutting--

Or didn't you get that he was being sarcastic?

[Scuba]

2. Yes, I have the sarcasm gene.

[freshwest]

9. Sarcasm aimed at those who don't get it. Like Molly Ivins saying 'Well, bless your heart.'

[stopbush]

3. Hitch is missed. No one has come forward to take his place.

[freshwest]

8. Yes, he is. He took on the teabaggers early on as an American disgrace.

[Capt. Obvious]

4. I assumed you were describing Hitchens

[backscatter712]

5. I miss Hitchens and his Hitchslaps! n/t

[Fumesucker]

6. Some say that it takes one to know one

There may be something to that.

Maher falls into the same camp I suspect.

[Tom Ripley]

7. I sicerely miss that gin-soaked popinjay

You don't know what you have until it's gone