So my mother goes, what do you think of Christopher Hitchens. And I say I do not like him. I do not like him at all. Okay, here, read this inflammatory op-ed piece in Newsweek that he just wrote. No, I say, because all it will do is make me angry. Please, she says, I usually hate him too.

So I read half of it. Guess what? He's still an asshole.

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This makes me feel sick.