A Buckley thread wouldnt attract as many fireworks...
You pushed one of my buttons mentioning Buckley. I really do miss that guy. There was a time when he was really all there was “standing athwart history”. Compared to then, we have a wealth of pundits coming in all flavors that simply didn’t exist back then.
I remember watching him debate people, taking them apart and turning them inside out, and doing it all with that slightly amused smile of his. There is really no one like him on the scene now.
And one of life’s little ironies is that Firing Line was on public television, funny how one of the bete noires of conservatives propagated conservative thought in an intellectually redmeat manner on one of the longest running shows in American television, apart from Julia Child ;>
Say, d’ya think Buckley and Julia....ah, never mind, his munchies were sure to be satiated by her cooking.