What normal person would put up with the inane indignities of the electoral process?
By Christopher Hitchens
Read More (Slate)
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Welcome to an unofficial Christopher Hitchens site. dailyhitchens@post.com
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
Yahoo! News
Wikipedia
Search results
Recent Comments
Popular Posts
-
Prolific writer and political journalist Christopher Hitchens will release a new book this September titled Arguably: Essays by Christopher ...
-
Los Angeles Times Contrarian social critic Christopher Hitchens, rocker Patti Smith and novelist Jonathan Franzen are among the finalist...
-
BE IT RESOLVED, religion is a force for good in the world. This question was put directly to the audience of the Munk Debates on Religion ...
-
Ignore Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and heed George Orwell's tea-making advice. By Christopher Hitchens "Now that "the hol...
-
By Christopher Hitchens "Forfeiting a both-houses Republican victory, rational conservatives ignored or excused the most hateful kind...
-
PZ Meyers response to the Hitchens Watch post 'Hitchens Collaborating In Religious Indoctrination?' "There is a site called C...
-
Aug 22, 2010. Rabbi Shmuley discusses cancer, religion, Hitch22, and prayers with CH. Play 2 Videos
-
A history of the Baghdad Express illuminates the resilience of politicized Islam. By Christopher Hitchens "FEW MOMENTS IN the anna...
-
Hay Festival 2006. "The contrarian traces the history of The Rights of Man from the publication of Part One in 1791 in London and its ...
-
Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debate blasphemy at the Guardian Hay Festival in 2005.
The Politicians We Deserve
October 11, 2010Posted by Tom at 18:39
Labels: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, politics, Slate
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
A very well written and enjoyable piece of exasperation. Just for his ability to routinely churn out well-wrought copy, he will be much missed.
paraphrasing Monty Python, "he's not dead yet"
Might have been nice if Hitch had taken five minutes to read up on the CT race before writing that column. What the Cappleman!
"Might have been nice if Hitch had taken five minutes to read up on the CT race before writing that column [sic]."
I'm surprised that Hitchens didn't attack Chris Coon's "appalling religiosity" in favor of that nice Christine O'Donnell.
With O’Donnell as Foil, Democrat Plays It Safe
A devout Presbyterian, [Coons] flirted with the idea of becoming a minister....
Post a Comment