#hitch slap

[lenbryant]

Missing Hitch.

[pjlowry]

"I refuse to be told what to think or how - let alone what to say or write - by anybody. But most certainly not by people who claim the authority of fabricated works of primeval myth and fiction, and who want me to believe these are divine - that I won't have."

Christopher Hitchens

[pjlowry]

In an average day, you may be confronted by some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. Everybody devises tactics for such moments; try behaving as if they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

Christopher Hitchens

[pjlowry]

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

Christopher Hitchens

[pjlowry]

I refuse to be told what to think or how, let alone what to say or write, by anybody. But most certainly not by people who claim the authority of fabricated works of primeval myth and fiction, and want me to believe that these are divine; that I won't have.

Christopher Hitchens

[pjlowry]

Today's Left would have left us with Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kososvo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I have no patience with that mentality anymore.

Christopher Hitchens

[lenbryant]

Hitch on the old trope that authoritarians in history were secular.

[lenbryant]

Hurling themselves about, making menacing noises...