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    Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    Richard Johnson had shit on Chrissy Buckley (mistress and kid on the side), maybe did a bit of strong-arming himself, and that's why it landed on Page Six? Or are my dates all off?
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    04/27/09

    @BookishLookish: My favorite is that he refuses to see or have anything to do with his own kid - then complains in his memoir that his father didn't stick around for letters C-Z at his graduation ceremony.


    Complete blindness to the irony - it's beautiful.

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    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    I think the best way to deal with WFB is to forget about him and everything he said. Fifty years from now thinking about WFB will be like us, today, thinking about some Whig party hack in the 1850s: "So and so was a favorite columnist and fervent supporter of protectionism and Millard Fillmore." He's already a dinosaur.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    Why is WFB's consideration of suicide considered such earth-shattering news?


    He was old, very ill, and had no chance of recovery. Plus he didn't commit suicide, just "thought about it". Where's the story?

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    04/27/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: You may want to ask a lifelong and very public Catholic about this.
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    04/27/09

    @skahammer: I'm married to one (well, he's not public). I thought the whole POINT was that your Catholicism helped you rein in and master these thoughts, not that you would never have any.


    Guess I didn't realize "thinking" about something was worse, than, say - cheating on your wife and refusing to see your own son.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    buckley was a miserable son of a bitch whose used his intellect and allowed it to be used to further the cause of rich white people in general and men in particular owning and running everything. his verbal gymnastics are impressive only to those who don't own a thesaurus.
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    04/27/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: And that's really what it was - impressive verbiage to hide offensive opinions.


    Did you read the NYT Mag article on these people yesterday? Pat Buckley was apparently a pathological liar who needed attention, and WFB defines narcissist. If they were of a lower socio-economic strata, they'd be looked at with rolled eyes.


    Only differences between Pat Buckley and Octomom are a rich husband and 13 kids.

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    04/27/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: The NYT Magazine piece made me free sorry for Christopher Buckley. His hero worship of his old man is unhealthy. It's unhealthy to revere a father so, even if the father performed legitimate heroics, must less leading the great charge of conning poor whites into believing that rich whites care an iota about anything resembling their interests. People close to WFB say he was kind and gracious in person, and perhaps that's what Christopher remembers and cherishes, but the piece reads as if Christopher holds his father on an unattainable pedestal. It's sad, because he's shown signs of at least being something of an independent thinker. It's like, Dude, your dad, like most dads but to a much, much greater and wider extent, was a huge dick. It's not something to be proud of.
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    04/27/09

    @Awesome X: Yes.


    He was an asshole for the ages--a perfect personification of America's ugliest traits.

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    04/27/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: perfectly said: "And that's really what it was - impressive verbiage to hide offensive opinions."


    pig shit wrapped in a pretty package is still pig shit

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    04/27/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: with lipstick?
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    The man was incredible. Pissing out a car window is not an easy thing to do.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    04/27/09

    @son of spam: I'm frankly trying to imagine the vectors of that situation? How is that possible?
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    04/27/09

    @momof3wildkids: Hasn't anyone heard of a bottle? Savages.
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    04/27/09

    @son of spam: I don't know, he did do a lot of pissing in the wind throughout his writing life, IMHO.
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    04/27/09

    @son of spam: Even more amazing, he simultaneously wrote a 900-word column with one-hand!
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    Well, if YOU were William F. Buckley, wouldn't you think about it?
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    04/27/09

    @raincoaster: applause
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    04/27/09

    @raincoaster: Pretty heartless comment, in my opinion. Emphysema is a horrible way to go. I guess empathy only is extended to liberals?
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    Image of Monkeyrash Monkeyrash
    04/27/09

    @momof3wildkids: Speaking as someone who just lost a family member to suicide, I do not wish that desperateness on anyone, regardless of their political leanings.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    Chris Buckley's comments about Gawker were a tad heartless, IMO. The Gawker editorial staff are people too, young Mr. B.
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    04/27/09

    @onebadclam: And it was totally off; the headline surely would've said something about Vidal.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Times Suppressed News of William F. Buckley's Suicide Impulse
    Although "Lion of the Right Considers Impossibly Difficult Decision Regarding Suffering and the State of His Soul Before Ultimately Making a Choice that Accorded With His Inner Beliefs" actually sounds kind of good right about now in this new Obama age of rational decision making and thoughtful consequence.


    Come on, right. You contemplate. We know you do. In the post-Bush age it's okay to contemplate. You can even spell the word correctly now and not lose the NASCAR vote. There's a black man in office, anything is possible!

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    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    I'd hate to be stalkerish towards Franco i.e.- any girl who's currently a student at Columbia/Barnard, but I'd totally have a love scene with Franco rewritten if I had the pull. Shit, I'd make the movie, like, Last Tango In Paris intense.
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    Image of Beausoleil Beausoleil
    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    Great, Chris. Who the fuck sells out their parents? I hope your new friends get a big laugh out of all these private revelations.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/01/08

    @Beausoleil: Nobody pimps out their dead parents like the Big Whites. And hey, he's got to pay for the upbringing and education of his non-recognized son, too.
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    12/01/08

    @BookishLatkeish: That (paying for the kid he fathered outside of his marriage and is now ignoring) is why he stepped down from writing for National Review. He still has an ownership stake in the magazine, and probably feared that if he didn't immediately get out of the spotlight that they'd lose many subscribers and he'd lose a lot of money.


    As I remember, he was initially outed as an adulterer back in 1998 or so, around the time Clinton was under fire for sticking the cigar in Monica.

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    12/01/08

    @The One: Yepper. Chris can say what he wants about his dead folks, but I bet old Bill stayed faithful to Pat, gravelly cigarette voice and all.
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    12/01/08

    @Beausoleil: "Great, Chris. Who the fuck sells out their parents?"
    The Reagan kids.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    Note to Peaches Geldof's husband: So are we.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    Yet Sean Penn has had his lips firmly planted on Fidel Castro's behind for years.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    Am I the only one who really, really doesn't get the A-Rod/Madonna thing? I mean, he's young and while I think he's gross I can see where many, many women would think he's hot. Whereas Madonna peaked 15 years ago and is now weirdly stringily muscley with absolutely nothing soft or feminine about her anymore. She should be with someone else old and past their prime -- Harrison Ford, maybe.


    I dunno, I guess to each his own, but I just can't wrap my brain around this.

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    12/01/08

    @SaraRueful: When I was growing up I thought Madonna was hot, now she just seems like the kind of old rich lady that would aggressively grab the pool boy's balls while she sips her martini.
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    12/01/08

    @SaraRueful: They're a very mis-matched couple to me, too. It almost causes me to wonder if they really are a couple or if this is a publicity stunt. Only, I can't quite figure out what this does to bolster his career.
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    12/01/08

    @SaraRueful: For all his prodigious talent and success, Alex Rodriguez always struck me as incredibly insecure and self-conscious. He needs validation and he needs to prove to himself and the world that he's really made it. Madonna, on the other hand, is trying not to be an irrelevant has-been. I think in this case, they're trophies for each other. [/armchair psychoanalysis]
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    12/01/08

    @BankerHardcore: This is wrong?
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    12/01/08

    @SaraRueful: Are you familiar with the term "rough trade"?
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    12/01/08

    @SaraRueful: Supposedly, he's into muscular women. Apparently his ex-wife was quite the hardbody (constantly at the gym) when they met.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    A note to all directors out there: If cast, I too would like to go full homo, with James Franco, as often as possible. Thank you.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Conservative Scion Determined To Keep Late Parents Spinning
    Evidently Brittany didn't just lip-synch, she pretended to MIME! I'd be upset too if I had to watch her don white face paint and pretend she has trapped in a glass box.
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