• 4:34pm - Monday December 19th 2011 (5 notes)

    hitch 
    "A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach’s Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews.

    “You will behave, won’t you?” Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club. No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher demanded: “Do you have a kosher menu?”

    Christopher was never a man to back away from a confrontation on behalf of what he considered basic decency. Yet it would be wrong to remember only the confrontational side. Christopher was also a man of exquisite sensitivity and courtesy, dispensed without regard to age or station. On one of the last occasions I saw him, my wife and I came to drop some food–lamb tagine–to sustain a family with more on its mind than cooking. Christopher, though weary and sick, insisted on painfully lifting himself from his chair to perform the rites of hospitality. He might have cancer, but we were still guests–and as guests, we must have champagne.

    I once had the honor of sharing a debating platform with Christopher, on the same side thank God. It was like going into battle alongside the US Marine Corps. The audience was overwhelmingly hostile. The longer Christopher talked, the more subdued they became. As the event broke up, a crowd of questioners formed around him. I created a diversion thinking it would help him escape for some needed rest. But Christopher declined the offer. He stood with them, as tired as I was, but ready to adjourn to a nearby bar and converse with total strangers till the bars closed.

    Hitchens was not one of those romantics who fetishized “dialogue.” Far from suffering fools gladly, he delighted in making fools suffer. When he heard that another friend, a professor, had a habit of seducing female students in his writing seminars, he shook his head pityingly. “It’s not worth it. Afterward, you have to read their short stories."

    David Frum, Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 (via jocicausa)

    (via jocicausa)

  • 10:52am - Saturday December 17th 2011 (2 notes)

    hitch 

    "If hell has Christopher in it, then I’d like to reserve my place there now." →

    One great man eulogizes another great man.

    Actor and author Stephen Fry salutes Christopher Hitchens as an inspiring polemicist but also as an abiding fan of P. G. Wodehouse and a magnificent writer.

  • 10:03pm - Thursday December 15th 2011

    hitch 
    Just heard of the passing of Christopher Hitchens’ death. The rational world loses a voice both inspirational and entertaining.

    Just heard of the passing of Christopher Hitchens’ death. The rational world loses a voice both inspirational and entertaining.

  • 11:35pm - Tuesday December 13th 2011 (2 notes)

    npr  shame  true story 

    I just listened to a perfectly reasonable and well presented perspective on NPR. Unfortunately it was undermined due to the presenter’s unfortunate name: Dick Meister. I’m guessing that happens a lot.

  • 10:09pm - Wednesday November 16th 2011 (12 notes)

    censorship  sopa  protect-ip  activism  freedom  evil 

    Stop Censorship →

    Congress is considering two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

    As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran.

    Do you bit! Follow the link to call your representative. Or follow this link to email them.

  • 1:10am - Tuesday October 11th 2011 (4 notes)

    crack 
    Random Internet Meme. I thank you.

    Random Internet Meme. I thank you.

  • 1:16am - Sunday October 2nd 2011

    We love achtergronden enzz - Hyves.nl on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/15506128

    We love achtergronden enzz - Hyves.nl on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/15506128

  • 7:25pm - Monday September 26th 2011

    Someone’s eating tuna on the shuttle. Twisted, filthy, disgusting, bastards.

  • 12:59am - Saturday September 10th 2011

    hell 

    SFO-dor

    As I sit here, waiting on the tarmac for my flight to take off, I can smell nothing but the stench on the shoeless businessman’s feet that are stretched out merely inches from my Cathay coffin. Truly, hell is other people.

  • 2:03pm - Thursday September 8th 2011 (7 notes)

    gambling  capitalism  games 

    Stocks & Stones

    Last night I decided to do a little gambling. For the first time I’m trying to play around with the stock market. It’s kinda fun actually. It’s just gambling really, but instead of betting on sports it’s gambling on something I know a little bit about. Having said that, at the end of my first day I’m down nearly 1%, and that’s not including the commission. Hmm… we’ll see how it goes. Fun though! It’s almost like I’m an adult!

  • 5:39pm - Tuesday August 16th 2011

    mobile  spam 
    What is this? WHAT IS THIS?! View high resolution

    What is this? WHAT IS THIS?!

  • 12:43am - Monday August 8th 2011 (1 note)

    funny  work 
    Courtesy of Modern Toss. Buy some stuff.

    Courtesy of Modern Toss. Buy some stuff.

  • 12:39am - Thursday August 4th 2011

    true story  awesome  weird 

    I Need Help

    Today I realized that “therapist” is just “the rapist” with less space.

  • 9:05pm - Tuesday July 26th 2011 (4 notes)

    games  awesome 

    The Campaign for Real Monopoly →

    Who knew?! I’m gonna try this, if I can just find someone who likes to play Monopoly. And who owns Monopoly.

    From Critical Miss Gaming Society, via Daring Fireball

    Extra info over at Marco.org

  • 11:21pm - Monday July 11th 2011 (1 note)

    dating  romance  true story 

    Dates are like buses. They didn’t used to be. That is all for today.

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