The Hitches Cancer Announcement

As we found out this morning, outspoken public intellectual and full time God hater, Christopher Hitchens has had to postpone a lot of his public schedules after being diagnosed with throat cancer. Hopefully the cancer has been diagnosed early and the chemotherapy will succeed in nipping it in the bud. The Hitch to my mind is quite simply one of the best and most articulate polemics of our generation. It is really too bad we lost him to the U.S (though he still holds British citizenship), but there we go. I know he upset a lot on the left with his support of the Neocon's (though I believe it was born more out of his opposition to the anti-Iraq war Left than a genuine affinity for Bush and Cheney), but if anyone has an opinion on anything, that is worth listening to, then it's the Hitch. No one quite has that knack of delivering that biting eloquent prose, and mellifluous one liner rebuttals you wish you'd thought of, in the face of dealing with someone afflicted with the symptoms of talking complete shit. Dealing with religious nutters like Jeremy Clarkson deals with caravans. An ermine coated AK47, metaphorically killing his victims in true style. In a mad mad world, we need someone like Hitch to dynamite the walls of bullshit. Let us hope we will have many more years of him firing on all cylinders. This just being a minor set back.