I feel like I've lost a friend. A contrarian and sometimes difficult one with whom I often disagreed politically but who was also funny, brilliant and uncompromising. That insufferable prick William Bennett is smugly confident that Hitchens now knows the error of his ways. Sorry Billy, but I don't think he knows anything now. He has ceased to exist except in his writings and in the memories of those of us whose time has not yet come.
I'm sorry to say I had to look-up who he was. I can't say I agree with him on some points, particularly with his support for the Iraq invasion and occupation by American troops (I still refuse to call it a "war"... that's my bias), and removal of Saddam (his words). Coin's hackles might be raised by his proclamations of being first, a socialist, then later, a Marxist. That ability, to raise Coin's hackles, raises his likeability with me lol ...His views on Israel though were controversial, a minority opinion for a jewish man. Not saying I'd disagree with what I know of them though... only that it's easy to see why you described him that way.
I love life and I love those I share my life with. I do not want that love just to end. I do not want to come back as someone else. I do not want to become one with the universe again. I want to be with those I love. But what I want means nothing and all I can do is hope as I enjoy what I do have.
LOL ...Another reason for me to like him, and mourn his death. Faux (borrowed from Tak) needs a person like him to annoy them.
And he did. He was outspokenly anti Islam, thinking that in practical terms it was the most virulently nasty religion out there at the moment. I doubt that Faux would find much to argue about in that position. But no other religion, including Christianity, came away much better in his view and for the official propaganda agency of the America-is-a-Christian-nation crowd this could be rather annoying indeed.
