Quotes of the Day

Both from IOZ. On Christopher Hitchens:

[I]t’s always been the genius of Hitchens to set himself up in amorphous opposition to a perfectly rational, unremarkable belief, which he usually states with the clarity and concision of a wise advocate before tightening his haunches and beginning a wolf-howl of righteous derision – tuneless, frightening, and senseless.

On Andrew Sullivan:

Andrew Sullivan is an ardent disciple of Andrew Sullivan, and that latter Andrew Sullivan is an ardent disciple of a fungible series of interpretations that are remarkable for how closely they hew to whatever Andrew Sullivan is saying at the time.