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It Ain't Easy Being Mean

Matt Welch | 8.28.2003 3:39 AM

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For those of you who enjoy seeing the Kennedys and their worshippers kicked while they're down, and/or who revel in watching Christopher Hitchens in full gleeful nastiness mode, this book review is probably for you. Atheists and others might also chuckle at his mockery of the Ten Commandments.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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