william f. buckley
Words Fail Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal has died. Perhaps you most treasured him for mixing it up with awful racist William F. Buckley, as above. (The aesthete Buckley called Vidal “a queer.”) We loved him best for (okay, Burr, but also) this:
Freaking John Birch Society To Co-Sponsor CPAC 2010
Meanwhile, in the latest conservative news, the Republican mainstream continues to slide into ultra-nationalistic militaristic paranoia and championed white supremacy along the normal trajectory: the actual John Birch Society — the comically radical conservative organization of racists and psychotic libertarians who pretended to fight domestic commies, 50 years ago — has of course been named [...]
Celebrate the 4th of July By Reading Books On the 3rd and 5th
How are you celebrating Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman’s victory over the aliens? Wonkette recommends indulging in such earthly freedoms as “third parties,” hallucinogens, and atypical products of M.F.A. programs! Ralph Nader will be around to answer your questions, and Reif Larsen will be around, to tactfully evade your advances. There’s also more, so much [...]
Buckley’s Kid Chortles About Quitting Conservatism
Christopher Buckley, the terrorist appeaser liberal betrayer and soiler of the legacy of the last conservative intellectual on earth, William F. Buckley, went on Chris Matthews’ show last night and chuckled about how a bunch of mouth-breathing rubes who read National Review hate him now. He calls himself a “hack novelist,” which is a little [...]
Christopher Buckley Quits National Review, Scorns Them All
After Christopher Buckley insulted his dead father’s National Review magazine by endorsing a liberal black Maoist over the Crazyfarts McBombs and Sideshow Moosetits ticket, every editor at the National Review and every wingnut with an AOL account called him a traitor to his own family, Jesus, and The Cause. And so Buckley has now quit [...]
Elegant, Witty Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. Dies, Leaving No Intellectual Heirs
Today In Obsessive Coverage of Everything Katherine Harris Does and Says
Chatology: Riding the Nuclear Tiger
Remainders: The Harriet and Judy Show
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