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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

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