William F. Buckley – Only the Good Die Young

One can be sorry that Hunter Thompson died as he did, but not sorry, surely, that he stopped writing.

- William F. Buckley

Apparently the correct way to write is to dress up a thinly veiled version of yourself as an action hero, give him the name of a gay pirate and have him navigate 300 pages of blunt implausibilities to save the Queen of England-punctuating the plot along the way with the tweedy aphorisms of your favorite Yale professor…

With the smug pompous racist dead at the ripe old age of 82, who will we turn to now for socially acceptable hate and condescension and empty threats of violence against anyone who questions political conservatism?

To Gore Vidal: “Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll knock you in the God-damned teeth.”

“I pray every Negro will not be given the vote in South Carolina tomorrow,” Buckley wrote in a private letter to Douglas Stewart dated October 10, 1961.

Oh, to this guy:  “Great man, great leader. Great conservative ahead of his time, articulate and entertaining,” said U.S. Sen. John McCain. Meh.