Christopher Hitchens, Ave Atque Vale

(Kenneth Anderson)

The great Christopher Hitchens has died.  Our families were friends; our deepest sympathies to his wife Carol and his children.  For my own part, this is how I remember Hitch, from Cyrano de Bergerac, Act V: Cyrano's Gazette (comments are open):

He attacks the false priests, the false nobles, the false landowners, the false artists:

In short, he attacks everyone!