RIP Christopher Hitchens.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Dec 15, 2011 7:01:48 pm PST #11764 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Allyson - Dec 15, 2011 7:07:56 pm PST #11765 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I just read about Hitchens.
Kat - Dec 15, 2011 7:50:42 pm PST #11766 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle, super cute hat. Also, I love the cloche that you are wearing in your self-portrait.
I am so tired that I'm beyond. But I have a presentation at a conference on Saturday (my time slot? 7:30-8:15... yeah. I'll have no one). I must put that shit together.
meara - Dec 15, 2011 8:12:41 pm PST #11767 of 30001
Hh. Good thing you're unlikely to be getting any of us pregnant, Matt! ;)
Burrell - Dec 15, 2011 8:41:03 pm PST #11768 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
gorgeous hat, msbelle
DavidS - Dec 15, 2011 8:45:43 pm PST #11769 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've always hated Hitchens as the ultimate, pompous self-regarding narcissist. Never once did he cover an issue without inserting himself and his mighty outrage at the center of it, so that every political issue was about him. The fact that his politics swung all over the place and was ungrounded by anything other than his peevishness damns his legacy. He literally achieved nothing except being the blowhard in the middle of the cocktail party. He held forth and had a very high opinion of his opinion. That is the sum of him. He amounts to nothing; he stands for nothing except himself.
And now he's gone. And nobody's going to go back and read him to understand his time the way they still read Orwell writing about his era. People will look back and wonder why anybody paid attention to him at all.
Beverly - Dec 15, 2011 8:46:21 pm PST #11770 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pretty! And the hat is nice, too.
javachik - Dec 15, 2011 8:53:35 pm PST #11771 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
David, ha! You just basically summed up why I hate Vanity Fair. (The magazine, not the book, of course!)
Consuela - Dec 15, 2011 9:02:21 pm PST #11772 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Awesome hat, msbelle!
Zenkitty - Dec 16, 2011 1:53:40 am PST #11773 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't even know who Christopher Hitchens is.