http://theagenda.tvo.org/blog/agenda-blogs/christopher-hitchens-1949-2011

So dear old Christopher Hitchens has died. I recall seeing him on Bill Maher’s show in my youth, never quite knowing what to make of him. I thought he was just a blowhard, who would say anything for attention during his support of the Afghanistan and Iraq war. None the less always interesting, and unafraid to say what he feels. Quite rare these days. He will be dearly missed.

The first video is an old video of Allan Gregg with Christopher talking about Bill Clinton. I enjoyed this the most. He is one of the few people who calls Clinton out for exactly what he is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16214466

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.”

“Nothing optional - from homosexuality to adultery - is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate.”

“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”

“If you’re writing about the history of the 1930s and the rise of totalitarianism, you can take out the word ‘fascist,’ if you want, for Italy, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia and Austria and replace it with ‘extreme-right Catholic party.’