What Do You Think of Dinesh D'Souza?

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33. I just have to burn some of my limited bandwidth on this.

I absolutely love Christopher Hitchens, one of the nicest people in the new atheist movement. He truly was gracious and polite, but he did not suffer fools kindly.

My favorite example of that is what he said on Jerry Falwell's death. "If they had given him an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox."

He delivers the money line on Hannity:
And Colmes:

His book, god is not Great has got to be the best religion polemic of all time, eclipsing even Thomas Paine (of whom Hitchens wrote a biography!). During his book tour he insisted on going through the US Bible Belt, where he debated theists at nearly every stop. Many of these are available on line. What is a bit astounding is that these debates were often to packed houses and that the theist would often ask Hitchens to repeat the debate in order to bring it to more people. He accommodated them at more than one occasion.

My favorite interview with Hitchens is on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe where he breaks into baudy limericks, one of his notable abilities. Unfortunately, it is only available on the SGU uncut episodes, but well worth the couple of bucks to download it.

Hitchens will be sadly missed. He was one of a kind.