Christopher Hitchens

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Hi I'm new to the board, I was wondering if you guys knew of Christopher Hitchens and if so How you feel about him?

Esquire1983 (esquire1983), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Run a search on him through the search linked at the bottom of this page - he's been talked about quite a lot lately.

N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

that's the funniest fake address I've seen in a while.

g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, 'nuff respect due to Ferdinand Uck, grad student in Chemistry at Brown!

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet it's Chrisopher Hitchens posting under a Fuck cover.

N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No it's a real address, email me and see.

D Aziz (esquire1983), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no it's a departmental address. "what's your major..."

g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

so many threads about him

anyway yall, have u ever noticed a resemblance between ch &....

http://www.jordalgar.com/revista20/congo/congo/imatges/02-victoria.jpg

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago)

martin clunes?

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago)

timothy spall

zvookster, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago)

yes. dammit knew I was close

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:51 (fourteen years ago)

there was a pic of queen victoria

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/l3Age.jpg

No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

frank discussion of psychoreligious matters / time travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiU5u6zAtyc

a you, Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

that dude isn
t catholic,, is he??

a you, Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:41 (fourteen years ago)

>seriously religiously motivated, but...politically too. Such a combination,
>generally gets in the way of reason

at least it isn't candy pop-sci. i guess i could watch more. the notion of the mind as a time traveling/passing ''thing' is p old so i suppose this is a little candy-tinged. at least he gets some attention.

a you, Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:45 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

fab gay lefty muckraker Doug Ireland on Hitchens' bisexual youth and their friendship.... Also contains a horrific reminder of what a pandering HIV-phobic piece of shit Bill Clinton was.

http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2012/01/04/gay_city_news/arts/doc4f04a6fd9311c733058294.txt

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:53 (thirteen years ago)

johann hari is a noted plagiarist and shithead and he overstates the obscurity of leo abse

hegel-lacan girl (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:56 (thirteen years ago)

Victor Davis Hanson: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286976/goodbye-mr-hitchens-victor-davis-hanson

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:57 (thirteen years ago)

I asked one of the brighter stars in the UK’s journalistic firmament today, Johann Hari, the openly gay columnist for the Independent, a fine upmarket daily, for his opinion.

caek, Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:11 (thirteen years ago)

lock thread

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

is that the joke?

caek, Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:13 (thirteen years ago)

Morbs, thanks for posting that Ireland piece. That was quite wonderful.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2012 19:20 (thirteen years ago)

youre welcome, Veg

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 January 2012 19:56 (thirteen years ago)

The chapter in the memoir about public school buggery is the most moving one.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't got around to reading Hitch-22 yet, I really really must.

Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

has anyone read "letters to a young contrarian". i'm about 40 pages in and loving it. feel like whether i agree with his conclusions or not the writing is brilliant, as is the way he builds such a robust structure around the need to express one's opinion at all.

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago)

I was just thinking about the part in Contrarian (I think) when he talks about going to the Senate press gallery each year and complaining about having to put down his race, until one year they just stopped asking.

Really missed old boy this last election.

a-lo, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago)

Sort of a spoiler there, sorry

a-lo, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago)

I remember really enjoying Letters, though it was years ago and all the details have faded. Need to dig it out. He really could write.

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago)

Likewise. I read it on an airplane flight in fall '05, for which it was ideal.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago)

just finished it. some great ideas in there. his stuff about humour is brilliant. don't know if it's intentional but i feel the book ultimately seems like his general manifesto for living, a lot of the ideas can be adopted beyond the context in which he shares them.

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 17 December 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

This thrashing by David Frum of a recent Hitchens bio is pretty entertaining. The book's author comes off as a callow exploiter:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/larry-tauntons-the-faith-of-christopher-hitchens-a-betrayal-to-reader-and-subject/486164/#article-comments

dinnerboat, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:00 (nine years ago)

I don't want to read the book, but I wonder if there's a distillation of Taunton's argument available. The argument as Frum reconstructs it is terrible.

jmm, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:24 (nine years ago)

It claims—in literally so many words—that a man admired by many was in fact a hypocrite, a liar, and a coward, motivated primarily by vanity and avarice.

Well... maybe not on the Jesus front, though.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:34 (nine years ago)


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