Hitchens loves one thing: Hitchens. I find it mildly entertaining at times and even somewhat informative once in a while (a recent Vanity Fair article about the simmering cauldron that is Indonesia, for one).
BUT, I also know going in that he is an angry, drunken, megalomaniac. He criticizes everyone and everything, b/c it sells.
Hitchen markets and sells a lot of bile.
His words come from a dark, sad place where he is enslaved by his own intellect.
He is not worth getting angry at.
If you really want to perturb him, after reading one of his diatribes, give your kids a hug.
Smoke will come from his ears.