Wow! I don't know too much about this Christopher Hitchens guy, but I'm starting to like him.

He was on Hannity & Colmes discussing Falwell again.

Hitchens Brutally Eulogizes Falwell on Hannity & Colmes

At the very end he says something like - "If you gave Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox". OMG!!

Crooks & Liars

Don't get too attached to Hitchens. He'll tick you off sooner or later.

Hitchens often says things very bluntly yet eloquently (I'm not necessarily including that interview in this, I haven't seen it). When you agree with him, that makes him seem very intelligent. Unfortunately, he also holds some rather asinine views, which he states with the same blunt eloquence.

I do't mean to be an apologist, but in fairness Jerry Falwell publicly repented his former segregationist views and baptized his first black family almost 40 years ago.

Yes, I wonder though if it's a fair supposition to suggest that - segregationists becoming thin on the ground and unlikely to ever hold the levers of power - Falwell simply transferred his tendency to bully minorities onto other targets. Just conjecture of course.

I've been reading some of what he wrote and said; I wonder also if - despite obviously having some flair for politics - Falwell just wasn't very bright. Or is it (this is like the Bush conundrum) that he felt the people he was addressing aren't very bright?

I was reading this morning that a Liberty University student was arrested for having homemade bombs in his car...his response to protesters that were at the funeral. Now what made him think gasoline/detergent bombs were the correct response to disagreeing with people who don't share his point of view? What makes him different from the young, radical Islamic men who are willing to blow up people (including themselves)?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3201543

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What makes him different from the young, radical Islamic men who are willing to blow up people (including themselves)?

Just a hunch; but I don't think this guy included himself in the planned explosion(s).

Sorry, I hate to be a 'looks-ist pig', and I very rarely have this reaction, but that guy Uhl creeps me out. Are those marks on his face scars?

Liberty University???