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Bonhomme Richard

(9,561 posts) Fri Dec 16, 2011, 10:05 AM Dec 2011

Christopher Hitchens on the Tea Party

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Christopher Hitchens on the Tea Party (Original Post) Bonhomme Richard Dec 2011 OP

"All politics is yokel" PassingFair Dec 2011 #1

My criterion for deciding which friends to e-mail his obituary to UTUSN Dec 2011 #2

I have a soft spot for iconoclast and he was one of the best. Bonhomme Richard Dec 2011 #3

PassingFair

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1. "All politics is yokel"

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 10:38 AM

Dec 2011

UTUSN

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2. My criterion for deciding which friends to e-mail his obituary to

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 11:52 AM

Dec 2011

The criterion for deciding who to send this to became:

Who did he offend, and there was plenty to go around::

He was an atheist and attacker of Mother Teresa and I think JP2 and author of “God Is Not Great”; formerly a TROTSKYite who later supported the wars on the Falklands and Iraq; attacker on Bill CLINTON and snitch who almost got Sid BLUMENTHAL charged with perjury over LEWINSKY; smoker and boozer (died at 62 yesterday of esophageal cancer) and refused to deathbed-convert/repent. You can decide which facet of offensiveness applies to (addressing my friends: ) you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html

Bonhomme Richard

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3. I have a soft spot for iconoclast and he was one of the best.

Reply to Bonhomme Richard (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 12:01 PM

Dec 2011

Not always right but they do challenge common beliefs written in stone. Dead at 62 but I think he would agree that he lived life.
Everybody dies.....not everyone lives.

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