Popinjay

Wednesday night I'll be traveling to New York to watch Christopher Hitchens and George Galloway debate the Iraq war. Here is Hitchens' opening shot (a reference to Eve Ensler's organization of a Galloway/Jane Fonda whistle stop tour):

Those of us who revere the vagina are committed to defend it against the very idea that it is a mouth or has teeth. Study the photographs of Galloway from Syrian state television, however, and you will see how unwise and incautious it is for such a hideous person to resort to personal remarks. Unkind nature, which could have made a perfectly good butt out of his face, has spoiled the whole effect by taking an asshole and studding it with ill-brushed fangs.

Oddly enough, I'll be accompanied at this event by a friend who definitely does not revere the vagina.