I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interréd with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

– William Shakespeare (HT: Bardweb.net)

We are admonished by the wise to speak no evil of the dead. Christopher Hitchens, however, described the beatification of Mother Theresa as “a great day for parasites” and went on to say “Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.”

In so doing, he signed a waiver disavowing any right to have his one life and passing treated with any more sanctity than he personally believed existed in the universe at large. I come to set the record straight on Christopher Hitchens. I read this man receiving posthumous praise and feel the acidic backwash of my morning coffee in the nape of my throat.

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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interréd with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

– William Shakespeare (HT: Bardweb.net)

We are admonished by the wise to speak no evil of the dead. Christopher Hitchens, however, described the beatification of Mother Theresa as “a great day for parasites” and went on to say “Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.”

In so doing, he signed a waiver disavowing any right to have his one life and passing treated with any more sanctity than he personally believed existed in the universe at large. I come to set the record straight on Christopher Hitchens. I read this man receiving posthumous praise and feel the acidic backwash of my morning coffee in the nape of my throat.

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