tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post8728566762762999243..comments2023-10-10T10:43:44.424-04:00Comments on cheaper than therapy: 2 deaths I am mourningDJ Wordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14597363296679699935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post-39583195378640164732008-03-04T17:04:00.000-05:002008-03-04T17:04:00.000-05:00Amen- great articles I found another by Jacob Heil...Amen- great articles<BR/><BR/> I found another by Jacob Heilbrunn called the Last True Conservative.DJ Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14597363296679699935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post-57452063189468653812008-03-04T15:53:00.000-05:002008-03-04T15:53:00.000-05:00David Brooks had a great story about Buckley last ...David Brooks had a great story about Buckley last Friday on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. <BR/><BR/>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june08/sbtxoh_02-29.html<BR/>(it's near the bottom under "Brook's Legacy")<BR/><BR/>"[Buckley] wrote a book in 1982 or '83 called "Overdrive," which was a little bit of name-dropping about his lifestyle, which was this grand lifestyle of skiing ... riding in long limousines. <BR/><BR/>So I was a smart-alecky college student, so I wrote a parody of his life, making fun of him. And I said, you know, he wrote three memoirs while he was in infancy, he founded two magazines, one called the National Buckley and one called the Buckley Review, which he merged to form the Buckley Buckley.<BR/><BR/>And so I made fun of him. And he came to campus at the University of Chicago where I was then a student. And he said, "David Brooks, if you're in the audience, I want to give you a job."<BR/><BR/>And that's how I became a journalist. And I went to work for him..."<BR/><BR/><BR/>The Economist also had a really nice article on Buckley's passing.<BR/>http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10766901<BR/><BR/>the last paragraph reads:<BR/><BR/>"Indeed, Mr Buckley's death comes at a time when the movement he created is at one of its lowest points in decades. Conservatives are uncertain where to go after the Bush-Cheney years. They are showing signs of intellectual exhaustion. And the crackpots, once exiled, are beginning to define conservatism once again. The movement has never needed a new William F. Buckley more than it does today."kidpositivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014095294196471690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061650.post-87667562133806438692008-02-28T21:04:00.000-05:002008-02-28T21:04:00.000-05:00My husband Mike and I had dinner and drinks with W...My husband Mike and I had dinner and drinks with William F. Buckley when he visited the University of Maine in 1969. Mike was head of the consortium committee that invited him to speak. Buckley was a gracious and charming dinner companion, and while I disagreed with much of his thinking, speaking and writing, I was mesmerized by his elegance and wit.<BR/><BR/>I feel sad and somewhat diminished by his loss. Mimi ReidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com