{"id":11282,"date":"2011-12-16T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11282"},"modified":"2011-12-16T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:38:18","slug":"11282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11282","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think Hitch explained the entire frreaking cosmos with this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can&#8217;t prove it, but you can&#8217;t disprove it either.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good Hitchens books: his essay collections<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prepared-Worst-Selected-Minority-Reports\/dp\/0701209038\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1324014239&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Prepared for the Worst<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sake-Argument-Essays-Minority-Reports\/dp\/0860914356\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1324014256&amp;sr=1-1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the Sake of Argument<\/span><\/strong>,<\/em><\/a> and his\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens\/dp\/1859843980\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1324014272&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">actually-quite-scholarly book<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>about Henry Kissinger\u2019s many crimes, his collection of literary essays,<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unacknowledged-Legislation-Writers-Public-Sphere\/dp\/1859843832\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1324014289&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Unacknowledged Legislation<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (no one has written better about Oscar Wilde\u2019s screwy version of socialism) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens\/dp\/0465030505\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1324014305&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why Orwell Matters<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, the expansive myth\u00a0of the great political writer and participant penned in\u00a0true emulative and contrarian style.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Hitch explained the entire frreaking cosmos with this: \u201cMy own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}