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in the tank

William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama

Shock! Christopher Buckley, an East Coast Intellectual Elitist, is supporting Barack Obama for president! It's funny because the intellectual end of the conservative movement has now completely dried up and blown away. And we're defining "intellectual end" broadly enough to include David Brooks btw. Here is the relevant passage from the Buckley column, printed in Tina Brown's weird Daily Brownington Post internet buzz thing: More »

11:59 AM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By Pareene
3,809 views, 90 comments

Latest by caligulash: McCain waited a full month--during which time he was all proud--to reject the endorsement by a certain loony televangelist. By contrast, more »

family matters

William F. Buckley, Asshole Even In Death

Conservative thinkin' guy William F. Buckley left his huge fortune almost entirely to his son, novelist Christopher Buckley. The rest went to Chris Buckley's two children with his wife. None of it went to Chris Buckley's third child, who he fathered with his former publicist. That child, 7-year-old Johnathan, suffers from ADHD. Buckley pays $3k a month to the mother, Irina Woelfle. Woelfle would maybe like that amount raised a bit, because now Chris Buckley has like tens of millions of dollars! But rascally old William F. Buckley made sure, on his death bed, to deny this illegitimate grandchild a dime of his fortune. He called him out by name in the will! More »

11:26 AM on Wed Oct 1 2008
By Pareene
9,435 views, 91 comments

Latest by FriendOfBobby: Except they spelled it "Egyptian". I seem to have run out of my Adderall. more »

pat buckley

And Now She's Dead: Pat Buckley

Pat Buckley, New York City's greatest and most forceful Canadian-born Merit smoker, died yesterday. She was 80. More »

11:41 AM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Choire
10,079 views, 9 comments

parties

Georgette Mosbacher Observes Christopher Buckley

Georgette Mosbacher's Fifth Avenue apartment is directly across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from the huge windows of her living room—where there is a life-size drawing of herself hanging above the baby grand piano, and fur throws on two settees across the room, and trinkets (decorative knives, feathers, paperweights, commemorative seals) arranged on a console, and photographs and chandeliers and Oriental rugs and velvet and mirrors—one can watch the small figures milling about on the steps of the museum. The elevator opens directly into her apartment, and last evening, in addition to the uniformed attendant, it was packed with people on their way to a party celebrating the publication of 54-year-old Christopher Buckley's new book, Boomsday, which is about a late twentysomething female blogger who proposes that people be given incentives to commit suicide when they reach 75. More »

2:44 PM on Tue Apr 3 2007
By Doree Shafrir
7,497 views, 18 comments

Latest by hatfielduk: No, that was Irena Woelfle from Ralph Lauren. more »