Dead in 2011

[Diomedes]

Christopher Hitchens. 

I'll miss him.

[phattymatty]

whoa. yeah i liked that cranky brit. didn't even realize he was sick.

[SunMo]

the religious nutters are having a field day with his death.

if an atheist dying of cancer is karma, what is it when a religious person dies of cancer?

[Rome]

Too little too late?

[rjs246]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mQorzOS-F6w

[SunMo]

that's some good beatdowns right there

[Diomedes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mQorzOS-F6w

This 15 minute clipfest featured comments about and only about religion.  It was good of course, but I bristle to think that people have settled upon Hitchens as a man who spent his life grinding the atheism axe.  He was much deeper and broader than that.  And of course you know it, but I can't watch that without saying so.

[MMH]

He's not too good at civility, but he's a helluva debater.
And that was always true, regardless of what he was debating.

[QB Eagles]

Vaclav Havel

[Munson]

Rumor mill spinning up on Twitter taht Kim Jong il has died

[BigEd76]

CNN confirmed it


kim

[MMH]

Cheetah from the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies

From the 1930s.  That's one old ass chimp.

[Don Ho]

Holy shtein!  I didn't know Chimps lived that long.  At least he never ripped his owners face off.

[Geowhizzer]

Holy shtein!  I didn't know Chimps lived that long.  At least he never ripped his owners face off.

Someone agrees with you.  About chimps living that long.

[Don Ho]

Sounded a little goofy.  This Planet of The Apes stuff has freaked me out since the 70's.