wow they're morons...

Good times. Hitchens can be an abrasive bastard, but he's right. And Blackwell isn't able to get in a sentence that makes any coherent sense. It might have been a fair fight if they had put in someone who could actually debate, instead of any random conservative of the present variety. I think Hitchens wins anyway, but this was embarrassing.

The whole point about theocratic institutions made at the end was probably the centerpiece of debate (one Blackwell was keen to avoid), and may well be the institutional problem that religion has had for centuries that has been struggled against with varying levels of success and many positive levels of failure (namely that organized religion is perhaps the most prone to abuse organizational system available, with only nationalist sentiments being in the same ballpark).




In a related story, Sullivan is perhaps the most prolific blog in terms of content I've seen. Even if each individual post is merely a sentence or two on a topic, the amount of data that must cross that desk is insane.. Even I take the time to reflect on some things long enough to contextual post an opinion rather than mere distribution, but to be able to do so in a sentence take is probably more efficient.