I felt mostly the way David does about Christopher Hitchens, but instead of Hec's analysis of his writing, I just thought he was kind of a twat. But I did come to feel some respect for him with his writing about his cancer.

Oh, and this is why I came here originally...Good Stuff fodder for sure.

Anonymous donors pay strangers' layaway accounts

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But he did it on a wider stage and made more money at it than the average blowhard. He also faced a miserable death with panache.

If you want to argue that a massive narcissist made a grand exit, I'll buy that.

Hearts on David.

Bad date of the year award. Nominee #1:

Deputies in Florida say a man stole a woman's car while they on a date at a Tampa area movie theater.

The St. Petersburg Times reports that 27-year-old Michael Pratt told the woman he needed to get something from the car while they were watching the movie. She gave him her keys. When he didn't return, she called him. Authorities say Pratt laughed, then told the woman he had stolen her car.

The victim, who is 35, tried contacting Pratt for two days before calling the sheriff's office, according to the paper. Pratt called her four days after the movie outing and said he dumped the car in a Walmart parking lot in New Port Richey, authorities said. Deputies found it and arrested Pratt on Wednesday. The car, a silver 2012 Ford Focus, was a rental.

According to the Times, Pratt previously served more than a year in prison for the same charge, as well as fraud, uttering forged bills and failing to return rental property. He is in the Pasco County Jail. No attorney was listed on Pratt's jail records.

Dear dog. I am not carrying your crippled ass to the park, so stop looking at me like that.

"uttering forged bills"?

How about this one?

A 31-year-old British man has caused thousands of euros worth of damage after appropriating a luxury villa on the French coast, media reports say.

The man, said to come from Manchester, reportedly broke into the home near Nice to create a love-nest for an American girl he had met.

He tried to create a romantic atmosphere with champagne, candles and rose petals sprinkled round a bed.

But his attempts to fill the empty roof-top pool flooded the house below.

He reportedly told neighbours who saw him trying out his golf techniques on one of the property's lawns that he was organising a party for his girlfriend, with the owner's approval.

He made it his own by pinning up images of Winnie the Pooh and the Manchester United football team, as well as putting up a black pirate flag

But, faced with an empty pool on the roof, he decided to fill it by turning on the outdoor showers and the garden watering system.

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I just got a super-cute holiday ecard from a family I know, but I had forgotten that they actually gave their daughter Danger as her middle name. Hilarious!!

That sounds scarier than sara's naming her cat Shiva.