Two days later, uber-hawk Christopher Hitchens, who writes maddenly fast -- “If I can’t fuck up Ann Coulter before lunch then I shouldn’t be in this business,” he once said -- begins his Slate column thusly:
It is extremely seldom that one has the opportunity to think a new thought about a familiar subject, let alone an original thought on a contested subject, so when I had a moment of eureka a few nights ago, my very first instinct was to distrust my very first instinct. To phrase it briefly, I was watching the astonishing TV series Planet Earth...
I'm sure Hitchens will point his gimlet eye on other, less pressing topics, next week.
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