At the moment I’m reading through Christopher Hitchens’ posthumously published Mortality (Signal, 2012). Hitchens lived his life as, among other things, a brash iconoclast of “religion” and slayer of many sacred cows. He especially seemed to despise the idea of God and regularly expressed his belief that a universe with God would be tantamount to […]
schadenfreude
Schadenfreude
When I was eighteen I was driving along one day minding my own business when a cloud burst hit. Within minutes a benign, relatively grey day was transformed into a torrential downpour. I pulled up to a four way stop when, to my right, a Chrysler LeBaron convertible pulled up, the top down. I took […]
