Christopher Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens has died.   I was saddened by this news.  He has been one of my favorite thinkers on the subject of religion and discourse.  I was sad that I would never get to meet him.   And then he told me that I would. Not in some vague way of some supposed afterlife, but right here and now.  His works are at my disposal to learn from or fail to do so as I choose.