[snarks_when_bored]

Well said, Mr. Hitchens.

[HawaiianGecko]

Hitch Ping

[HawaiianGecko]

Hitch Ping

[kellynla]

BTTT

[ken5050]

Brilliant piece..and congrats to one of our newest American citizens..

[kimosabe31]

bump

[McGavin999]

Christopher Hitchens is absolutely brilliant. I wish we had more men with minds like his, and the ability to speak their minds.

Imagine what we could have accomplished in Iraq if only we didn't have to fight such a hard battle here at home and in europe.

[Allan]

"I do in fact know the answer to this question.
So deep and bitter is the split within official Washington
most especially between the Defense Department and the CIA
that any claim made by the former has been undermined by leaks from the latter."

[tet68]

Just a taste of H.H.Monroe, the main course will come later.
He was killed in the great war alas, but some of his war poetry lives on, although a pitifully small amount it is.

Hitchens is such a great writer, I'm glad his talents
have finally found a cause worthy of them.

Now off to the post office, or is that redundant?

t.

[tet68]

Ooops, forgot to include the quote!!!

"THERE IS, first, the problem of humorless and pseudo-legalistic literalism. In Saki's short story The Lumber Room, the naughty but clever child Nicholas, who has actually placed a frog in his morning bread-and-milk, rejoices in his triumph over the adults who don't credit this excuse for not eating his healthful dish:



"You said there couldn't possibly be a frog in my bread-and-milk; there was a frog in my bread-and-milk," he repeated, with the insistence of a skilled tactician who does not intend to shift from favorable ground.":

Childishness is one thing--those of us who grew up on this wonderful Edwardian author were always happy to see the grown-ups and governesses discomfited.


Just a taste of H.H.Monroe, the main course will come later.
He was killed in the great war alas, but some of his war poetry lives on, although a pitifully small amount it is.

Hitchens is such a great writer, I'm glad his talents
have finally found a cause worthy of them.

Now off to the post office, or is that redundant?

t.

[longshadow]

I don't agree with all of Mr. Hitchen's premises, and I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but this is one of the most compellingly argued cases I've ever seen, and they guy can writes like his pen were a stiletto.

Well worth pondering...

[BonnieJ]

Great article.
And what has become of that other Brit journalist often so conflicted lately...Andrew Sullivan? Nothing of his has been posted lately it seems.

[Thorin]

Hitchens is a Reagan-hating, Catholic-hating Commie. Always has been. Always will be.

[aShepard]

A bump for later

[cgk]

bflr

[Nicholas Conradin]

In Saki's short story The Lumber Room, the naughty but clever child Nicholas, who has actually placed a frog in his morning bread-and-milk, rejoices in his triumph over the adults who don't credit this excuse for not eating his healthful dish

Nicholas Conradin is outted!

The first name of my screen-name "Nicholas Conradin" is in fact taken from the name of the character in the Saki story. "Conradin" is from "Sredni Vashtar," another story by Hector Hugh Monroe (pen-name "Saki"). Both characters are autobiographical, with Conradin being Nicholas' dark side.

[rogue yam]

Ping for a later read.

[Maigrey]

placemark

[Shawndell Green]

"The training and hardening of many thousands of American servicemen and women in a battle against the forces of nihilism and absolutism,"

The most important benefit.

[shield]

He's a socialist...but he's one smart cookie...I liked his statement regarding the clintoons'...he said they've sold their soul to the devil for power...in his english disgusted way...that will cut the legs off anyone ...

[mother22wife21]

I was pinged to this and am paying it forward.