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Happy Birthday, Hitch!

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Happy Birthday, Hitch!
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Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 6:36 am
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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 6:47 am (This post was last modified: April 12, 2019 at 6:56 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
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I was once asked, in all seriousness, 'If Christopher Hitchens was so smart, why did he die young?'

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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 6:55 am
(April 12, 2019 at 6:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I was once asked, in all seriousness, 'If Christopher Hitchens was so smart, why did he die young?'

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"Well, God works in mysterious ways."
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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 6:57 am
That's what I should have countered with, yes.  Instead, I made the mistake of trying to explain throat cancer to a fuckwit.  Didn't work.

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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 7:25 am
(April 12, 2019 at 6:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [Image: 2yee2i.jpg]

I was once asked, in all seriousness, 'If Christopher Hitchens was so smart, why did he die young?'

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"Because cancer doesn't discriminate, you utter fucking moron!"

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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 12, 2019 at 8:04 am
Yeah... Hitch and more recently, Vorlie. Sad
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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 18, 2019 at 9:12 am
I think that Christopher Hitchens was a great intellectual, albeit, a bit too abrasive at times. Ironically, his last words were something to the effect that, "Capitalism is a failure." In light of catastrophic climate change, I would agree.
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April 18, 2019 at 9:18 am
One of my favorite quotes from him was upon the death of Jerry Falwell, went something like, "If you gave that man an enema you could bury him in a matchbox."
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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 18, 2019 at 10:17 am
(April 18, 2019 at 9:12 am)Jehanne Wrote: I think that Christopher Hitchens was a great intellectual, albeit, a bit too abrasive at times.  Ironically, his last words were something to the effect that, "Capitalism is a failure."  In light of catastrophic climate change, I would agree.

Selfishness is a failure. Sadly, humans aren't much good at anything else.
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RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 18, 2019 at 10:52 am
(April 18, 2019 at 10:17 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(April 18, 2019 at 9:12 am)Jehanne Wrote: I think that Christopher Hitchens was a great intellectual, albeit, a bit too abrasive at times.  Ironically, his last words were something to the effect that, "Capitalism is a failure."  In light of catastrophic climate change, I would agree.

Selfishness is a failure. Sadly, humans aren't much good at anything else.

So true of some religious who look forward to their (imaginary) reward in their afterlife.
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