>I don't really have a horse in this race, since Hitchens no longer appears
>in the Evening Standard, and I don't read the Nation, but is the
>resignation of a newspaper columnist really an appropriate occasion for
>people being so bloody nasty? It strikes me that if the guy has a drinking
>problem, or if he's had a breakdown, it's pretty bad taste to be gloating
>about it; if he hasn't, it's probably libellous.
A guy who calls Mother Teresa a "hellbat" - rightly, don't get me wrong - sort of inspires that kind of treatment, I'd say.
Doug