Hitch loves you

[Gordon Fitch]

> "Members of the left, along with the far larger number
> of squishy "progressives," have grossly failed to live
> up to their responsibility to think; rather, they are
> merely reacting, substituting tired slogans for
> thought. The majority of those "progressives" who take
> comfort from Stone and Chomsky are not committed,
> militant anti-imperialists or anti-capitalists.
> Nothing so muscular. They are of the sort who,
> discovering a viper in the bed of their child, would
> place the first call to People for the Ethical
> Treatment of Animals."
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/hitchens.htm

But this is merely an idle, empty gibe, rather in the lower
William Buckley style.  A step or two down, and Hitch will be
ready for Usenet or the local tavern.  Truly, a sad descent.

-- Gordon