Hitchens v. Galloway: Or why I stay out of Manhattan when the humidity is high and that funky sewer smell rises up

Third Avenue posts his eyewitness account of the Hitchens-Galloway debate.

The motion: 'The March 2003 war in Iraq was necessary and just'

The two men entered from opposite sides of the platform. There was enough aggressive testosterone in the room to give Britney Spears chest hair. Amy Goodman, the curiously lacklustre and frustratingly non-interventionist moderator, gave a short introduction, and they were off. Naked mud wresting was never such compelling spectator sport.

Go read the rest. Great ending too -- but I don't want to be a spoiler.