The opposite of de mortuis

Iraq.
Theophobia.
Except for those, thanks for everything, Christopher Hitchens.

Hitchens summarized

#Hitchens haunts me because he was everything I want to be--funny, fast on his feet, in charge of terrific talent......and [he] was also everything I fear I am--belligerent, smug, cruel, glib, and influentially wrong about really important matters.

--womzilla on Twitter