Christopher Hitchens is an interesting fellow, not really a conservative and certainly not a liberal and a very irritating atheist. But he is also brilliant with a mind and a typewriter like a razor.
If you want to see puffery exposed; devastatingly, then read his column in Slate.com.
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"So amnesiac have we become, indeed, that we fall into paroxysms of adulation for a ward-heeling Chicago politician who does not complete, let alone "transcend," the work of Dr. King; who hasn't even caught up to where we were four decades ago; and who, by his chosen associations, negates and profanes the legacy that was left to all of us."
If you're like me you'll feel a little smarter after you read it, but I may need the help more than our readers.
