This may be slightly off topic. I used to read Christopher Hitchens
with some amusement and some agreement, until he published (in _The
Nation_) a screed about capital punishment in relation to the
Oklahoma City bombing. I call it a screed because he saw fit to
accuse the families of the victims of vicious ignorance and
hatefulness for wanting Tim McVeigh to get the death penalty. (Wish
I could recall his exact words, but believe me, they were mean).
I'm against the death penalty myself, but the sheer nastiness of
the names he called those grieving people was so vile that I just
stopped paying any attention to him at all. He can call himself a
"contrarian" if he wants to, but I think his contrary-ness (is that
a word?) is more like plain old selling out.
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