Love him or loathe him you have to admit that Christopher Hitchens is a clever bloke and a decent writer. He may be mad; he almost certainly is a piss head; he might be racist or Islamophobic.
This week's My Week feature in The Observer chronicles a week in the life of Mr. Hitchens. In it he:
This week's My Week feature in The Observer chronicles a week in the life of Mr. Hitchens. In it he:
- ...bemoans the furore stirred up over John Kerry's failed joke
- ...bids a hopeful and happy farewell to Sen. George Allen of Virginia
- ...describes his ejection from Hardball on Faux News for using the word "nigger". If his explanation is correct then the execs at Fox were wrong
- ...explains that you need to drink 100 glasses of red wine a day to get enough resveratrol to increase your life span and one gets the sense that he is considering trying!
- ...recounts a touching story of an encounter between the later William Styron and a waiter
Even if you hate him (and most of the time I do) you should go read it.
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