[trek]

"Hitchens is a very surprising lefty. He is one of the very few on the left who actually to this day — DEFENDS Bush’s decision to depose Saddam and stabilize Iraq.

But then I guess he has a motive as his latest book suggests -— HE HATES ALL RELIGION."

Hitchens is not that hard to understand. Hitchens is a homo. But he is not a stupid homo. He hates religion and G-d because he thinks, falsely, that their admonition against his sexual predilection are why he is so angry and unhappy. But he also sees the communist left for the murderous fanatics they are. Hitchens is no more complicated than that.

[donna]

You’re thinking of Andrew Sullivan. Hitchens is married with a child, I believe.

[cammie]

I’m no Hitchens fan, but the slight problem with your deduction that Hitchens is a homo is that it requires you to argue away his marriages and children. But go ahead, keep making conservatives look like teenagers sniggering about “homos.”

[joebuck]

I admire Hitchens to the extent that he is an atheist with the courage of his convictions. He rejects dogma on the left as quickly as he rejects Christian dogma that does not comport with his intellect. His refusal go along with whatever is current intellectually fashionable among the elite is as refreshing as it is rare among the self righteous annointed ones. There is nothing sadder than a fine intellect not gifted with the blessing of spiritual discernment.