Water Retention

Christopher Hitchens' latest Slate piece has to be read---and probably re-read---to be believed. I want to avoid spoiling the surprise (and thereby protecting my readers from recoil), but I will point out that Josh Marshall, if anything, is going easy on Hitchens. Suffice it to say that Hitchens both swallows the WSJ editorial board line about a certain someone being a heroic whistle-blower, and then goes a step further by comparing that same someone to the victims of McCarthyism. See if you can read the piece without throwing up in your mouth just a little bit.