{"id":7864,"date":"2011-12-16T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:20:17","slug":"the-king-of-all-contrarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7864","title":{"rendered":"The King of all Contrarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://rgprincipal.com/contact-peru/">https://rgprincipal.com/contact-peru/</a> Christopher Hitchens is being lionized today for many things. I met him once, in the early 1980s, after signing him up to to speak at my college. The first thing he said to me, after arriving: &#8220;Comrade, where do you go to get a drink around here?&#8221; He was terrific that day, of course.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/specialties/generational-trauma/">Hydrocodone Purchase Online</a> Andrew Sullivan, another contrarian of sorts, has <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/12\/hitchens-tributes.html\" target=\"_blank\">compiled<\/a>\u00a0an excellent round-up of tributes. My favorite (for now) is from Slate&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/fighting_words\/2011\/12\/christopher_hitchens_death_his_generosity_to_young_people_was_amazing_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Weisberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/results/"></a> Like all of us, he was often wrong, but never in the way everyone else was wrong. His originality was a constant, his independence an unstoppable engine. He loved to argue and debate, not because he was a bully but because he thought it pointed in the direction of truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
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