Ezra Klein recounts a passage from the a profile of Christopher Hitchens in the current New Yorker wherein wherein our hero goes off on an expletive-laced tirade at a dinner party against guests who demurred from his description of Howard Dean as “a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag.”
No mention in the excerpt as to whether Hitchens was inebriated but, knowing his reputation, I’m guessing he was. Still, I must admit that his reaction was rather unseemly for a dinner party.
