Don't Try This at Home

Christopher Hitchens agreed to undergo waterboarding to determine "whether it was torture?"

Here's the best thing I've seen written all day on this undignified publicity stunt:

Torture is any experience so horrible that no-one would consider trying it out simply for the purpose of writing a Vanity Fair article about what it’s like.

If I might add my first thoughts: A man of Hitchens' apparent physical condition has no business volunteering for something of this nature, a wartime coercion instrument:

See also, Allahpundit, "Video: The Obligatory “Hitchens Gets Waterboarded” Clip."