The Drawn Cutlass: Hitchens Update

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hitchens Update

Just to keep people who admire him beside myself aware of his continuing struggle with cancer.

1 comment:

dmurray said...: The link inlcuded: Once, he reminds me, Cyril Connolly said “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” Mr. Hitchens understands what that means, but he doesn't necessarily agree.

Connolly can thank Month Python for mentioning his name at the end of "Eric The Half A Bee." That is how I recognized the name. It rhymed with, "semi-carnally." You can look it up.

Connolly's quote and Hitchens' endorsement show their common and banal egocentricity.

Hitchens in Hitch 22 wrote that he learned that his mother had aborted a sibling elder to him and a sibling junior to him before his brother Peter was born.

Connolly and Hitchens, I pray for you both, like it or not.

Thanks for your post.

DM; 10/24/2010 01:42:00 PM

The Drawn Cutlass Philosophy

Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect, and don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security, it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety

All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.

Restaurant Ratings

My restaurant ratings, mostly intended for BBQ restaurants, will be on a 1-5 scale, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Unlike most reviewers, I don't intend to play games with the rating scale by introducing fractions such as "2 and 1/2" or "4 and 3/4," I've always considered that stupid and a signal that the reviewer is trying to avoid making an honest 1-5 judgment.

Here is the breakdown of the ratings:

1 out of 5: waste of time, crap, unable to finish eating; apathy by staff/ownership

2 out of 5: edible, but no effort to impress; staff/management going through motions; desultory.

3 out of 5: average; reasonably good food, moderate effort by staff/management

4 out of 5: good; tasty, well-prepared food, staff alert, restaurant clean.

5 out of 5: great; excellent food, cooked fresh. Staff attentive and proactive, management responsive to complaints. Restaurant spotless.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hitchens Update

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