How ahead of his time was Christopher Hitchens? Well, when he released his book, The Missionary Position in 1995, the notion that Mother Teresa was anything less than a saint was believed by the entire world. Even after his follow-up documentary, Hell's Angel, it still seemed as though her reputation as a do-gooder would never truly be tarnished. Slowly, over time, her insanity and cruelty has been exposed. ...

We all knew it was coming, but somehow we had managed to ignore the cruelty of reality for a little while. For a moment there, it almost seemed as though Hitch had managed to defeat his cancer. Unfortunately, life is a cruel bitch that kills your heroes prematurely (it's true that Jack Daniels and Phillip Morris had done most of the damage, but still). Now, the world is a little duller, a little dumber, and ...

Alright gang, it's time for me to use what little influence I do have to force the lot of you to vote for Christopher Hitchens as one of Time Magazine's "Most Influential People". Go to the site and vote for him, otherwise the Gods of Atheism will strike you down... Hitch is currently 12th on the list below Lady Gaga and Beyonce. Surely we can do better. ...

Sit back and let Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens and Neil Tyson fill you with wonder and awe at the beauty, complexity, and fragility of nature. ...

Religious people are hilarious. How many times have we been accused of being "just another religion"? I imagine just stating this baseless canard must be a way for them to feel comforted by the idea that atheists base their beliefs on the same dogmatic mechanism they use. Unfortunately for them, it's ludicrously easy to demonstrate just how wrong this idea is. I fell upon an article this morning claiming th ...

This may surprise you, but it turns out Christopher Hitchens' little brother is religious. So religious in fact he wrote a book called The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith. It's basically a repudiation (heh) of his big bro's book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and it argues religion keeps shaky civilizations from collapsing (maybe on Opposite Day) and prevents the horrors of ...

Oh Conservapedia, you're the gift that keeps on giving. We recently donated some money to Wikipedia, the reality-based crowd sourced encyclopedia, so I suppose it's only 'fair and balanced' we give its right wing la-la land equivalent some love too in the form of a post. On its front page next to such fine articles as "Is Barack Hussein Obama a president, or is he a dictator?" and "More than a thousand scie ...

Oh wounded Christians, when will you stop your belly-aching and stop acting like you are the victims of atheist aggression? It seems like every other day I have to read some theist's article about how atheists are either 1) way too mean, 2) clueless about religion, and 3) completely dogmatic about their non-belief. While I could accept the first (in my case, although I'm one of the few very vitriolic ones), ...

It's awesome to watch this interview, but watching him with his hair falling out kind of makes me think about losing him, and even worse, it makes me think about the fading of Christopher Hitchens as well. Damn you to Hell, cancer! ...

In case you haven't seen this video floating around the webs, check out this highlight of Christopher Hitchen's best verbal bitch-slaps. It fills me with sadness we may soon lose this intellectual giant. ...