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It’s been a few days or at least hours since Christopher Hitchens gave an interview. Let’s check in with the Jesus-hating Bushbot ex-Trotskyite American citizen (wait, what?):

All writers go on about how difficult writing is, and of course there’s that, because it gets harder when you compare yourself to better people, but to be absolutely frank, I don’t find writing hard at all. I could in a course of a day perfectly easily write a column that’s 1,000 words for Slate and a book review for the Sunday Times of London, for example.

Yes, Hitch, we all sort of noticed that about you. MORE »

Vanity Fair has come crawling back to DC. After an eight year absence, they’re once again throwing a White House Correspondents Association dinner afterparty. And, like in the olden days, it is to be held at Chris Hitchens’ alcohol-infused, highly-flammable house. MORE »

What, exactly, inspired Christopher Hitchens to go on at length about how obnoxious he finds the second-person singular pronoun? His intoxicated fury upon visiting for the first time a website that everyone else on the internet has seen a thousand times. MORE »

Hate yourself and have $600 to spare? Have dinner with Bob Novak! MORE »

It’s a fey and foppish week in Wonk’d with John Kerry eating organic, Pat Buchanan feeling ladylike, Dennis Kucinich running down the dream, Christopher Hitchens, uh, drinking, and wittle Kenny Mehlman walking off his lunch. All these dandies, plus a whiff of the week’s biggest asshole’s asshole.

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Wonkette editors on both coasts were mystified by a “tip” received this morning:

From: _____@aol.com
To: tips@wonkette.com
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:49:37 EST
Subject: (no subject)
Total bullshit. I never eat at McDonald’s. And at the time I wasn’t even living in Washington, or wearing a bow tie. Eating a breakfast sandwich as I walked out the door? Come on. Seriously.

Unravel the mystery with us, after the jump.

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Ok, we know Chris Hitchens doesn’t always photograph that well, but you’d think his own magazine could’ve found a better author photo. MORE »

* Outside the beltway naiveté rears its cute little non-partisan head as most Americans respond, “I don’t know,” when asked who they want for President in ‘08. [The Swamp]
* It’d be nice if for once we didn’t have to say it — Robert Gates is richer than you. [TPM Muckraker]
* The blog-commenter race wars continue as some feriners stank ass forces a plane to make an emergency landing. [TalkLeft]
* Rudy Giuliani: America’s “hyper-authoritarian narcissist with a lust for overkill verging on the sociopathic” Mayor. [Salon]
* William Jefferson is still running for Congress and from the FBI. [Election Central]
* Christopher Hitchens outs himself. [Echidne of the Snakes]
* Happy birthday, Booze! [Hit & Run]

The drink-soaked popinjay’s latest column for The Observer is so glum that we nearly slit our wrists, and we still can’t figure out what he’s going on about. But he is depressed, and bored, and powerless to control the forces of American idiocy that surround him. Some highlights, or low lights: MORE »

• No matter what she says, Cindy Sheehan has no, and will never have, a reason to go to Norway. [Sweetness & Light]

• Christopher Hitchens has a disease, and the cure is a strict regimen of shut-the-fuck-up. [Ezra Klein]
• “We may be looking at emerging evidence of a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill.” [Accuracy In Media]
• Oh hell yeah, it’s what we’ve been waiting for: $150,000 a year for being born American. U-S-A! U-S-A! [Hit & Run]
• Pentagon reporters will get a mea culpa from Rumsfeld — after they squeeze it from his cold dead lips. [Power Line]
• White House thankful baseball players are lousy pilots, giving us a chance to show how “ready” America is to defend condos. [HuffPo]
• Al Franken isn’t even as funny as he looks. [Galley Slaves]
• Terrorism confessions to surge as government now offers acid to detainees. [TPMMuckraker]
• Bill O’Reilly, flag peddler, doesn’t wear his own products and likes to keep his $1500 suits pinhole free while supporting the terrorists. [Media Matters]

Just as Sept. 12 was the day the White House actually got it together, some of the iconic Sept. 11 moments happened in the days and weeks after the attacks. Here are some memories we refuse to surrender:

* A Nation Challenged That was the first time we laughed after 9/11. A Nation Challenged? Good job maintaining that NYT air of comical pomposity under tremendous pressure!

* Somber Wagnerian dirges on CNN Just to add to the “Empire Strikes Back” vibe, all the cable-news stations switched to this outrageous “Imperial March”-style music, which was a hell of a lot more foreboding than we knew. When you were drunk enough — which was always, remember that? — you could almost see Darth Vader walking out of the Ground Zero smoke.

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The New York Observer today features a lengthy and hilarious investigation into the public, online meltdown of New Republic culture critic Lee Siegel, who, after penning a blog for TNR in which he attacked all other bloggers and those associated with them (in the process coining the term “blogofascism”), later dove into the comment threads of his own posts to defend himself. Using a goofy alias, of course, and lots of blogofascistic language. Naturally, at some point in his storied career of pissing people off, he pissed off Christopher Hitchens — so they took it to the streets! Or, uh, to their respective inboxes. MORE »

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• Reliable Source: Washington, D.C.’s former first lady Effi Barry is recovering from acute myeloid leukemia… Hilary Duff fired drummer/DC native Shauney “Baby” Dandy… [WP]
• Lowdown: Chris Hitchens on Brent Snowcroft: “I think he’s an idiot. I’ve always thought he was an idiot.” [NYDN]
• Rush & Molloy: Matt Lauer and Al Roker attended Elizabeth Vargas’ baby shower. “Bob Woodruff… donned a suit and tie for the first time since sustaining critical injuries in Iraq last January.” [NYDN]
• Page Six: A CBS News website story about Katie Couric curiously makes no mention of Dan Rather. [NYP]