http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/fighting_words/2012/08/christopher_hitchens_mortality_the_unpublished_jottings_of_the_late_great_writer_and_thinker_.html

Take the time to read this article and remember how delicious is was to have Christopher Hitchens around. I discovered him in high school and followed his up and down public life along with his more personal questions about politics and his own following of the right/left crowd. This bothered many people, his changing of the mind after 9/11 but I was proud of how willing he was to be human enough to check out the other side, to see how it fit his mind, and to not bow down to his constituents. I think this made him more of an enlightened writer in the end, having traveled the path of questioning things, and his writing as he died reflects his brutal honesty. I still miss his writing in Vanity Fair, the only reason really I kept their subscription for a while and still read it online. His older essays and more modern ones speak of a person who was really more relateable than he was in his earlier disco era hipster days. But aren't we all...RIP Christopher Hitchens  - we are still enjoying you. And isn't that was writing is all about, leaving something behind.