Ghost of a flea

His attitude to posters with the hammer and sickle, on the other hand...

I disagree ... your headline should probably read "futile and reckless," and perhaps "inebriated."

futile and reckless," and perhaps "inebriated."

Better than supine, calculating and submissive and slanderous. Bill, you have done good reporting. This is not an example..
I'll take 1000 drunk Hitches over one obama.

"Better than supine, calculating and submissive and slanderous. "

1. I'm not sure what you mean by that line.

2. I'm not "reporting."

3. I didn't think the topic had anything to do with the relative value of Hitchens vs. Barack Obama.

4. I've always been a fan of Hitchens, and still am.

5. That said, I would not walk into a neighborhood where half the locals are Syrian neo-nazis and start flipping them off, endangering the people I was traveling with, any more than I would walk into certain parts of DC and start critiquing criminal behavior. And if someone I was with did it, I would probably knock them out for risking my safety as soon as I was done beating/running from the anti-semitic goons they just riled.

I've witnessed plenty of bravery, and there is a subtle yet unmistakable difference between what that looks like, and what pointlessly reckless looks like. At the very least I find the glorification of the latter (mildly) discomfiting, if not shocking.

http://abumuqawama.blogspot.com/2009/02/hitchens-in-beirut-michael-totten.html

(btw, I wrote my comment before seeing that I came to the exact same conclusion as the link I provided above ...)

1. I'm not sure either - drunk blogging i guess.
But if you look at the words, they each mean something VERY SPECIFIC. Supine: to lay down to our enemies, calculating: to suppose that we have words instead of blows to exchange with our enemies,submissive - as in submission to totalitarial ideologies; slanderous(or is it libelous- I cant remember- to attribute the rightous actions of Hitchens to a drink or three.

we are done.

spell check on:
totalitarian

"Pointless reckless(ness)"
Save us from the meek and the eviquivical. Who will stand in the arena?

equivical

So, since you are labeling my joke about Hitchens possibly being inebriated (a cliched joke, to be sure) as "libelous," (slanderous is incorrect) I can only assume that you're also referring to me via the other adjectives: "supine, calculating and submissive." Noted.

Regarding "who will stand in the arena?", I can only wonder what your idea of an arena is, and what you have done that required the qualifying fortitude, aside from commenting on blogs.

We're in agreement on one thing, however - "we're done." Cheers.

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