Slog - Comments on "Cosy Moments Cannnot Be Muzzled!" http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/cosy_moments_cannnot_be_muzzled I'm sorry I missed this when it was published last month: Christopher Hitchens writing about what might be closer to his heart than Orwell: Marx's journalism. Discussed: Wodehouse, the Victorian opium trade, New York newspaper wars, and Prussian peasants, who used to be allowed to gather firewood that fell on the ground. (Marx wrote editorial after editorial defending their traditional right to fallen branches which seems, in light of his subsequent achievements, kind of noble and kind of cute.) And here is a shot of pure, distilled Hitchens—elegant and edifying with a heroic dose of self-regard: If you are looking... Copyright 2008 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:13:19 -0800 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:03:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by nick I read the headline, and burst out laughing. Nothing like a bit of Wodehouse to brighten up the morning :)

]]> nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/cosy_moments_cannnot_be_muzzled#c766047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/cosy_moments_cannnot_be_muzzled#c766047 Arts Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:55:30 -0800 Comment by elswinger They also don't teach you that Marx had second thoughts about the Communist Manifesto after seeing labor unions succeed in the U.S.

Marx wasn't the problem. It was Lenin and then Stalin.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/cosy_moments_cannnot_be_muzzled#c766263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/cosy_moments_cannnot_be_muzzled#c766263 Arts Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:03:58 -0800