We don't quite know what to make of Christopher Hitchens' account of his recent "cosmetic makeover" at a West Coast Spa. Vanity Fair devotes many online pages to a blow by blow description of our second favorite grumbly, bearish Brit's attempt to stop smoking while shaving and showering, to swap out his proverbial British teeth for American ones to go with his newly acquired US citizenship, as well as what spa food he chewed with the old British ones. Eventually he goes in for a Brazilian form of hair removal upon his nether regions that would be disallowed if practiced on detainees in Guantanamo. But with his new Burt Lancaster-style gnashers he is able to silently grin and bear it.  (More …)