[oblomov]

Thank you for sharing your reminiscences. Although I am 15-20 years younger that you, Buckley was an important figure to me as well. At one point I read everything I could get my hands on regarding the conservative perspective on the 1965-1975 period (which I regard as a cultural and political watershed). I read many volumes of Buckley's collected essays and old copies of NR from the period. The Unmaking of a Mayor is a masterpiece of political satire.

Buckley fils is typical third-generation trust fund trash. One of his stated reasons for supporting 0bama is that he is a Harvard Man, and another is his horror at Palin's gaucherie. So his support is simply a matter of class judgment. His smarm will earn him plaudits among the social circle in which he considers himself a member. But his position of privilege is built on his grandfather's oil money, and oil is dirty.

[Clemenza]

WFB Sr. was, by most accounts, very much like Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.” I doubt, however, if WFB Jr. ever helped his father with a “straw.”