[HiTech RedNeck]

Been posted before, but basically Greenberg has dedicated a whole current column to execrating another pompous, boring long gone libertine blow hard and playing a little cutesy about who it was. Surely Vidal can’t still be getting under Greenberg’s skin from the grave?

[mkjessup]

the Patriot Act is "as despotic as anything Hitler came up with"

On that count, Vidal was absolutely correct, proving that old adage about blind squirrels occasionally finding acorns.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Superior review of a very minor "intellectual".

A bit**y old queen whose pen became more poisonous with each passing year.

He will be remembered only in passing and not kindly.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

[Steely Tom]

Pretty good writing.

For some reason I always confused Gore Vidal with Gene Rayburn. Both were often on TV when I was about 12 years old.

Sort of the visual equivalent of confusing “there’s a bathroom on the right” with “there’s a bad moon on the rise.”

Ah, the Wonder Years. The formative years: ages one through twelve.

[txrefugee]

And to illustrate how incredibly bankrupt the vapid era of Kennedy worship was, this cretin was elevated to the inner sanctum of their phony Camelot.

[pluvmantelo]

The Joyce Carol Oates line was very funny. Vidal may have been an execrable human being but he had a gift for one liners.