Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens, arguably one of the greater intellectuals and public rabble-rousers of this generation.
Love him or hate him (I strongly disagreed with his full-throated support of the Iraq War), he was an insightful, incisive writer, slaughtering our most sacred cows with his rapier wit and unflappable stoicism. So notorious a sight were his public debates and interviews - white-hotly infuriating for some viewers, delicious guilty pleasures for others - that being on the unenviable receiving end of one his intellectual excoriations came to be known as being "Hitchslapped."
Here's a link to an interview from last month with his wife, reflecting on her time spent with The Hitch: http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/20...d-and-lover-and-chum-and-playmate/?hpt=pm_mid
If I had any Johnny Walker Black label, I'd raise a glass to him tonight.
Love him or hate him (I strongly disagreed with his full-throated support of the Iraq War), he was an insightful, incisive writer, slaughtering our most sacred cows with his rapier wit and unflappable stoicism. So notorious a sight were his public debates and interviews - white-hotly infuriating for some viewers, delicious guilty pleasures for others - that being on the unenviable receiving end of one his intellectual excoriations came to be known as being "Hitchslapped."
Here's a link to an interview from last month with his wife, reflecting on her time spent with The Hitch: http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/20...d-and-lover-and-chum-and-playmate/?hpt=pm_mid
If I had any Johnny Walker Black label, I'd raise a glass to him tonight.
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