Plenty of people are bombastic. PJ O'Rourke is bombastic. Andy Rooney was bombastic. Neither of them said "My way is 100% correct, unassailable truth and all other ideas and opinions are purest excrement." Christopher Hitchens argued from a position of such pure, unexamined certainty that he was able to pass off colon-extracted hyperbole as if it were holy writ. This is a man who was consistently and unexaminedly wrong about much of the world yet never re-examined or restated anything on the numerous subjects where his bloviating certainty turned out to be wholly and completely mistaken. I've been wrong before. I'll be wrong again. Even Greenspan has admitted he fucked up the economy. It takes a big man to do that. Christopher Hitchens was not a big man.