He's in a better place now.

I always liked Hitchens but man was he wrong on Iraq--and he couldn't admit it. Too bad his campaign to incarcerate Kissinger didn't work out.

"Those who the gods will kill, they first drive mad."

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Well, nobody's right all of the time. But Hitchens was right in his criticisms about A. G. Bojaxhiu, Kissinger, and a whole lot of similar A-holes.

Whether right or wrong I don't think anyone ever caught Hitchens in an outright lie in his public career. That alone disqualified him to be a republican - or a fundamentalist christian. (That would make a good epitaph for his tombstone: “At least I wasn’t a god damn liar.”)

He was a real intellectual and he had integrity--at least in his public life. Not saying he didn't in his private life but I don't really know much about that.

I've been reading all the columnists and bloggers in their comments on his demise and found the following info rather interesting (from Emile Hirsch):

"....When Hitchen's spoke at his father's funeral he read a passage from the King James Bible, in the New Testament book of Philippians -- and said that he would hold the words close himself at his final hour:

'Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there by any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.'"

An interesting man and an interesting family all told. A voice worth listening to even if you thought he was wrong.