“It’s a very vulgar, arithmetical, pragmatic way of arguing anyway. If you do that, then get the facts and figures wrong, well then you’re really fucked. You’re fucked twice.”

Christopher Hitchens, May 2002 http://archives.cjr.org/year/02/3/giuffo.asp: On Noam Chomsky <br class="br">2000s, 2002

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