Christopher Hitchens - Gone with the wind

[MarquisDeSade]

It is with much sadness that I announce the passing of irreverent gadfly of religion and Vanity Fair contributor Christopher Hitchens at the age of 62 as a result of esophagus cancer.  If you haven't read "God Is Not Great" you're missing out. 

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_Not_Great

One of my favorite picks of him:

[imref]

i always enjoyed listening to him and reading his articles, he wrote long enough to probably have pissed everyone off at him at one time or another.  RIP.

[mitlen]

i always enjoyed listening to him and reading his articles, he wrote long enough to probably have pissed everyone off at him at one time or another.  RIP.

+1   

"  .... wrote long enough to probably have pissed everyone off at him at one time or another."      That's my goal.    My son gave me a MC helmet sticker  ...   "Places to go.  People to piss off."
He always added spice to the discussion.

[MarquisDeSade]

Hitchens could troll with the best of them but the man had brains.  Just a sad day.