Christopher Hitchens 1949 – 2011

As most of you are probably aware by now, Christopher Hitchens passed away last week.  Being one of my idols, it’s taken me this long to be able to even think about writing about him.  You all know this is not a very serious blog, what with Amylynn being in charge and all, but the topic of Mr. Hitchens is very serious to me indeed.  

Christopher Hitchens

I will miss his writing and debates terribly. 

Many a mere mortal has walked away from a debate with him wondering what the hell just happened to them, and how in the world their agent could have thought debating Christopher Hitchens was a good idea.   I never saw him lose a single debate.

I have spent years trying to obtain and read everything he has written.  People who know me think that I first became aware of him when he published “God Is Not Great” in 2007.  If you haven’t read it yet, you should.  It’s a masterpiece for more then one reason.  I originally ran across Mr. Hitchens due to our mutual dislike of Mother Theresa back in 1995.  I started to read what he had to say because of the topic and was completly in love with his writing style, intelligence and wit by the end of the article.  From that day forward, I would read anything he had written.  He was such a brilliant scribe that you could not help but be consumed by his articles even when you didn’t agree with his opinion.   

Maybe there is some fun to be had here after all – through the years, Amylynn has been very amused by the fact that I would have slept with him over a rock star or a movie star.  Truthfully, that even amuses Ed. 

Here’s one of his quotes on women – ‘Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny?”  As a woman, I should have been insulted but my only thought was that he would eat those words once he met me and Amylynn.  Sadly, now he’ll never know how wrong he was on such an important subject.