I don't know if the idea of Hitchins as a policeman is enough to frighten me for the rest of my life or something to make me laugh the rest of my life.

no such confusion with Kissinger

So... wait... is Hitchens saying he's always been shameless?

A friend of mine in college used to say that if you paid attention to what someone said long enough, they would eventually give themselves away. Funny how true that is... or would be, if it played out in fiction moreso than real life.

Oh, and humiliation means publicly forcing humility onto someone... Which means only the humble can never be humiliated; or more verbosely: how much someone needs to fear humiliation is inversely proportional to how humble they are.

What is humiliating is that Bush was elected the first time and doubly so the second time. Europeans have always thought we Americans were dumbshits and we keep proving it for them.
Here is a real gooder example from the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102401563.html

Paul M. Weyrich, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, said the White House is not doing enough to repair relations with the base. "I'm not seeing anything," he said. "Maybe they're doing certain things with people who are closer to them. But in my case, I've not gotten any special treatment or invitations or whatever."

Still, Weyrich said the White House may yet benefit from conservatives coming home. "It'll all come down to conservatives," he said. "For a long time, I've heard nothing but 'I'm not going to vote for these jerks.' Now I'm hearing 'Well, I suppose we'll have to vote the jerks back in and see what we can do.' "

Vote the jerks back in and see what we can do? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

We already fucking know what they fucking do, we are so fucking stupid.

That is what is humiliating.

"Panic, impotence, shame. I've never known any feeling like it."

The whiskey has obviously blurred Hitchens' memory of prom night.

I can't imagine that being attacked is humiliating. I can imagine that being occupied--forcing yourself to bite your tongue and go along with unfair rules imposed on you by a force you feel is illegitmate--is humiliating. Which of course doesn't bode well for us in the future. . .

Dude, 'member that time thousands of our countrymen were vaporized without warning?

That was soooooo embarrassing.

Jonathan, I think that perhaps you have spent a wee bit too much time in the bubble made of glass. In my experience, at least, the ways to be a frothing lunatic are beyond the human capacity to count. The thing is not reducible to a "Let Me Count the Ways" type of approach. It is, like God, quite beyond our grasp. Sort of like neither here nor there, while at the same time, a surfeit of froth and lunatics both.

Anatol Lieven has written of "new white ethnoreligious groups that have brought to the United States their own traditions of defeat, oppression, and consequent bellicosity: in the past the Catholic Irish, more recently the Jews.".

Link, please?

Jonathan, thank you for bringing succor to my tired old eyeballs.

Jesus B. Ochoa, I'm with you. All available evidence provided by the current U.S. government, the rightwing blogosphere, and the "liberal mainstream media" would indicate that the ways to be a frothing lunatic are indeed legion.

Smiling Mortician, I disagree. The different frothing lunatic methods sometimes appear to be legion, but if examined closely generally fall into a limited number of categories.