Christopher Hitchens R.I.P.

[jetcitywoman]

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/ ... ens-201201

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... cer-center
(at bottom of page he submits himself to a trial of waterboarding)


He drinks, he says, 'because it makes other people less boring.'



He was a man of insatiable appetites — for cigarettes, for scotch, for company, for great writing, and, above all, for conversation. That he had an output to equal what he took in was the miracle in the man. You’d be hard-pressed to find a writer who could match the volume of exquisitely crafted columns, essays, articles, and books he produced over the past four decades.

RIP, Chris.