The Politicians We Deserve

October 11, 2010

What normal person would put up with the inane indignities of the electoral process?

By Christopher Hitchens

Read More (Slate)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

paraphrasing Monty Python, "he's not dead yet"

FGFM said...

Might have been nice if Hitch had taken five minutes to read up on the CT race before writing that column. What the Cappleman!

Anonymous said...

"Might have been nice if Hitch had taken five minutes to read up on the CT race before writing that column [sic]."

FGFM said...

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....

 
 
 

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