While I don't care about much other than the well being of my own family anymore, I had expected someone else to post some kind of fitting tribute to this outstanding journalist/author/intellect. I never agreed with everything he had to say, far from it, but I appreciated his intelligance, candor and forthrightness. I really wonder if the days of intelligent commentary are gone now and all we are left with is punditry. Though a self avowed athesist and probably me too, I just like to say God Bless Christopher Hitchens.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/9233571.stm

PS: I'd also like to say I thought the interviewer was especially well informed and not overly sympathetic to a clearly dying man.

Clip doesn't play on my computer.

Hitchens was the type of social commentator conservatives hate most, not so much in what they say but because they argue logically and eloquently.

It's just too hard to shout this sort of person down using the same tired old lies that have been presented as the truth until even the people who make them up believe them.

Hitchens was the type of social commentator conservatives hate most, not so much in what they say but because they argue logically and eloquently.

Hitchens supported the Iraq War and spoke out against "Islamic fascism". He was a often called a neoconservative because of his political views. For the last 20 years he has argued logically and eloquently alright - against the left.

May be he wasn't neo-conservative, as much as against the neo-left, a position I'm quite prepared to adopt personally.

I liked a quote of his about the early (post Henry VIII who was never a Protestant by the way) Church of England, ''It was not a limp-wristed, stained-glass, ritualistic piety, rather a uniquely British, robust, unapologetic Bible-based faith, without the fanciful relics and superstitions.''