http://velvethowler.com So much more than you wanted. Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://velvethowler.com/2008/09/20/bons-mots-and-betes-noires/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:14:07 +0000 Bryan http://www.velvethowler.com/?p=1481 Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism in the Times. There are a number of interesting anecdotes in the article, such as the ones about how several prominent French ex-Communists supported Sarkozy against Royal in the most recent French presidential election. But then it kind of fizzles out at the end with a tired, signature diatribe against GOD and FUNDAMENTALISM. (Via Lenin’s Tomb.) ]]> Christopher Hitchens reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism in the Times. There are a number of interesting anecdotes in the article, such as the ones about how several prominent French ex-Communists supported Sarkozy against Royal in the most recent French presidential election. But then it kind of fizzles out at the end with a tired, signature diatribe against GOD and FUNDAMENTALISM. (Via Lenin’s Tomb.)

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