Mason Crumpacker is a ridiculously smart 9-year-old girl who became moderately famous this month after chancing into a conversation with Christopher Hitchens at a get-together of freethinkers in Houston, TX
Because a kid who’s growing up in Texas and has that level a head on her shoulders, is going to have an amazing life. Not to mention, being far more heartening a story than elevatorgate…
She’s brilliant, a scientist in the making. Fair play to her parents, too.