William Buckley on Death

"I'm tired of life." - WFB

[@dashercronin]

Maybe one begins to feel suicidal listening to Charlie trying to frame a question....

[@sratus]

dashercronin Brilliant

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

**REALITY CHECK** Charlie doesn't have every question set-in-bronze! As the host, there's still room to rephrase a question, perhaps to make it more significant. He's WORKING, not just reading a TelePrompter!! That's what makes his one-on-one so effective...

[@collectorduck9061]

*set in stone

[@leegordon3232]

LOL!

[@leegordon3232]

Sounds like a classic Letterman quip!

[@nickstoli]

The ironic thing about getting old is you don't like being old, but you also don't want to be young again.

[@dianaraymond9]

It’s a great accomplishment to not have lived a life in fear a friend once said touch your corruption! I’m so glad to have met that friend!

[@benkleschinsky]

I've always felt as someone who is religious, I don't want to live any longer than my time. When my time comes I'm ready to leave. I don't want to prolong pain and suffering. I believe in the lord.

[@redicderldavis]

Truly great man and his interviews are still great to watch. Not many like him around now.

[@Rogo472]

He does have a great smile, even in dull subject his smile is of wise knowing and joy.

[@patrickvanmeter2922]

I'm a liberal but always enjoyed Buckley. Agree of disagree, a great mind. Like many other great minds, he makes you think.

[@Bartokeltoawe]

Patrick van meter he really doesn't

[@MADguyfps]

@@Bartokeltoawe He does

[@kendallevans4079]

Likewise. Never agreed with his politics but the man was brilliant AND erudite in the old school way as Vidal, Plimpton, etc....Gone now! replaced with billionaires who captivate the attention of the current culture. Sad

[@-KillaWatt-]

I always appreciated Buckley for making me challenge my own ideas. One of his lesser applauded skills he had cultivated over the years was his ability to extract information out of people. He always asked the right questions. He was able to get people to further expand on their ideas and present a perspective they wouldn't provide otherwise.

[@Jamesmartens55]

This has got to be one of the most profound youtube videos in existence. I looked at myself in the mirror after this.

[@johndoe-fq7ez]

This is actually goals. Be so fullfilled in life that you welcome death at the end because youve done everything youve wanted to do.

[@jadezee6316]

he didnt say that..he said he was tired

[@jeanluc1313]

“This is … goals”? Is English your second language?

[@johndoe-fq7ez]

@@jeanluc1313 no, first that’s why I use it so freely and colloquially

[@dalemcnamee2427]

I wouldn't want to be 20 again (I'm 63) since this world is growing more and more evil and I know that it will continue on that path... I've seen enough and as a Christian, I'm looking forward to going to Heaven where I will have a brand new body that will be perfect beyond believing ! No sin ! No evil ! No sickness, no disability, no more pain ! And most importantly, I'll have brand new heart and a thoroughly cleansed soul ! And I will be free of my melancholy and depression ! And I will truly worship the Trinity in beauty and wonder and with deep gratitude and love ! Like Mr, Buckley, I am also weary of this life and each year I am reminded of family and friends that have died and the list continues to grow... I am also reminded by this rotted culture that I don't belong here... I grew up in a far better, if imperfect, culture and watched it get progressively worse since 1965... The problem with age is that you have memories and regrets...

[@Runconna]

The world has only grown more understanding doing your life time. Best of luck with your new body in "heaven"

[@sethrenouver8953]

An amazing interview. Buckley is so candid and open about his desire for death.

[@bethvirginiaphillips4583]

When he lost his beloved wife, Pat, I think he lost the will to go on. All his friends were dying and he couldn't do what he loved to do. Very sad. He was such a dynamo and a gift to all who loved the gentility and orderliness to the universe, which he embodied. A classy man, erudite, witty.............he had it all.

[@oldnick4707]

so... not true, just in yur fuc-t up world ;(

[@oldnick4707]

George W. Bush because he had the world by the ass,& didn't care anymore :(

[@Ma007rk]

Very good point. Also, He was having health problems as well. After my foster dad passed away I saw what it did to my foster mother. She lasted for about 6 years after his death. Even when he became bed-fast she at least had him there with her. It was sad to watch her just pine away.

[@tapasyatyaga4041]

His wife died 2 weeks before this interview

[@chm9935]

He exited at the right time like Carlin and jim rohn. I cant see a guy like Buckley surviving in today's wok3 minefield.

[@michaelfr613]

I always admired William Buckley. Thanks for posting this video.

[@paulbarlow8286]

Taped May 4, 2007. He died Feb 27, 2008.

[@sunsetsky3605]

His wife had just died the month before on April 15, 2007.

[@robertmarino3341]

@@sunsetsky3605 I think that is the biggest reason for WFB to have been so very depressed and despondent in this interview. He lost his closest partner. Very sad all around.

[@jeremyfoster8944]

buckley doesn't believe in death the way a skeptic would. he just regards it as a transition to a formless existence

[@jadezee6316]

this doesnt make sense

[@mikelittle2644]

If you have a chance to read Buckley's book "Miles Gone By", do so. The man has led a very full life. I hope that I can look back on my life and be as satisfied as he is.

[@richardrmwd]

So sad, a great man with what will hopefully be, an enduring legacy.

[@RozarSmacco]

He died on February 27, 2008. RIP. Watch William F Buckley's video on Celestial Navigation to see a great mind in practice.

[@booJay]

Life's only short if you can be with the ones you love and do the things you enjoy. Once those are gone, life takes forever to get through.

[@tuxguys]

WFB on Mortality... ...and he expresses his view on this as he does on any other topic: Elegantly.

[@chel3SEY]

What?! It is utterly refreshing. No great thinker I know of believed that the point of life is merely living for its own sake, but rather HOW and WHY one lives. WFB was endearingly frank and clear-sighted about this here, to his very great credit. It is touching, honest, poignant, but hardly sad.

[@bohun28]

Once we had William Buckley...now we have Bill O'Reilly. What a depressingly terrible decline that emphasises.

[@gardenvarietypenis]

buckley and o'reilly aren't analogous at all.

[@bohun28]

gardenvarietypenis So, who would you say is the modern day equivalent of Buckley? Who has taken over the mantle so to speak?

[@gardenvarietypenis]

nobody. buckley was unique. o'reilly is not a conservative and he certainly isn't invested in the republican party like Buckley was. Perhaps if you combined O'reilly with Krauthammer and sprinkled in some Medved and Reagan and added a dash of Limbaugh, you'd come close but no cigar.

[@TheLaw055]

Keyser Söze I think you are only partly right, namly, Buckly was of the "RIGHT"true conservative.... BUT O' Rilly ia a neo-conservative what you Americans need is Pat Buchannan or a person like late Joseph Sobran. Given that today's conservative in US have moved to the left, & thererefore the is NOT much difference between the Democrats & Republicans today. eg. issue of immigration no difference between the parties, attact on traditional culture/institution no difference etc etc.

[@OMGWUNSIU]

Keyser Söze I enjoyed ever so much listening to WFB on television when I was younger. We did, however, live in more "thoughtful" times. Now the average person's attention span is barely longer than the time it takes to draw a breath. I watch The Factor from time to time and Bill O'Reilly is a good man. I agree with him on many things. He gives to others to the tune of millions and millions of dollars a year and on his show he gives opposing viewpoints a chance to present their case. he has some strange positions on cell phones and the internet, as if the internet is "alice" instead of a simple tool for humans to express what kind of people they are. We do not now, unfortunately, have anyone like William Buckley and I miss his sound reasoning very much. I can not even watch "our" president on television without wanting to puke. Check our Saul Alinsky and Bill in another video... Alinsky can't even put a proper sentence together.

[@wmosco]

People don't want to be 20 again because they've been there. Growing old means attaining wisdom. This makes getting older pleasurable.

[@kendallevans4079]

Only if I could sleep through the night without getting up 2X to pee!

[@raggedybritches5798]

@Lou Ghee Trebuchet lol

[@martiodalyz6398]

Death has a way of stressing the point that humility should accompany-this inevitable Event-and i can notice-what great humility he speaks with-while preparing for his demise! I have really admired Mr. Buckley for having disposed all the gestures, which before-he exaggeratedly would represent as an elitist, a man full of obvious arrogance, and superior intelligence; non-pareil. I am very happy to have seen this, uploader-for i would not have expected it! i thank you.

[@pookatim]

This is how you feel when you have had a life well lived, without much regret. Buckley was fortunate to do exactly what he wanted to do for a living and accomplished much worth merit. To simply "exist" after so many years is not much of an enticement.

[@Mullerology]

His biggest regret never left him though

[@gregorcollins]

Love is stronger than death, KZbinrs. So love. Just love. And death will become irrelevant.

[@nextari]

exactly, Buckley's lack of love in life is portrayed here. Maybe he's just more honest than most.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Not necessarily. Olivia De Havilland (age 101), who starred in "Gone With the Wind"(1939), has just sued FX over her depiction in the mini-series "Bette and Joan". **SHE'S VERY MUCH ALIVE...**

[@mikefallopian3191]

Gotta love Charlie Rose. Reliably gives you 60 words for every 7 or 8 his interview subjects manage to squeeze in.

[@genexxer1]

I just laugh very loud. Thanks!

[@genexxer1]

laughed. I meant "laughed."

[@mikefallopian3191]

Gerry Cooney I've seen very little of Bill O Reilly but I think the premise is that he is the star of his show, and his opinions are the drawing card. Charlie Rose isn't in that position. But he yammers on and on and on anyway...desperate to impress with his erudition and moderation and penetrating insight, but he's dull as dishwater. His ego is completely unjustified. HE needs to take a few lessons from Brian Lamb at C-Span. Ask a succinct question, shut the fuck up, let the guest answer. Repeat.

[@eriks8382]

Giving him a taste of his own medicine

[@evanfinch4987]

produced this clip

[@pvonberg]

Charlie Rose, as usual , asks a question and then doesn't let his guest answer but answers it himself. Rather than listening to Rose babble on I would have dearly loved to have heard Buckley speak some more on the profound subject of Death.

[@costernocht]

Peter Von Berg You're so right. Beware the interviewer who talks more than his subject!

[@betteroffsingle]

Yes, Rose is full of the sound of his own voice. unfortunately, there are a number (and growing) of bad interviewers like him.

[@nextari]

It's like Charlie chooses the exact moment of when things get serious and real, to giggle and spin off with some innocuous triviality. odd.

[@2Majesties]

Charlie Rose is t.h.e. w.o.r.s.t.

[@brandoncosta1848]

2:53 He does his sly smile. I love that even after all those years and with only months left to live. It’s still Mr Buckley, his body is older but his spirit is intact. I hope he was pleasantly surprised with what he found. I hope we all are.

[@DavidSaks]

Bill was an act of God. I think of him with great affection every day of my life.

[@Inconvenientx]

Imagine the release of being truly ready to die. No more fear of death. How freeing.

[@wrzffh]

I totally disagree with Buckley politically but what he is saying here is very profound especially because he died shortly after.

[@Upstreamprovider]

I see what you mean. I thoroughly concur. (I am 48, btw). One only has to see a lot of Buckley's interviews on KZbin with people like Chomsky, Leary and Ginsberg to see how far our television media has fallen in the last 30 years, just to use a singular example. Now the left slags off the right and vice versa, merely on the grounds that they are "not like them" and this is also happening on a world-wide cultural level. Dark times indeed!

[@kendallevans4079]

Bingo! Now it's the joke, sound bite, etc...Remember "At One with Keith Berwick"? One guest, one host, one hour.....Gone!

[@djmcnerney]

I'm a progressive. I agree with Gore Vidal on most issues and disagree with Buckley on just about everything. But I found his comments here--about death--to be arresting.

[@billphillips4614]

A national treasure. Some ignorant and hateful comments here..

[@MattSingh1]

He advocated the illegal/immoral war in Indochina, held a fanatical position on abortion and was against the civil rights movement. He is/was only a 'national treasure' if you're morally bankrupt.

[@Cryptic0013]

You keep calling him morally bankrupt, he'll haunt your goddamn face, and you'll stay haunted.

[@johndow5599]

Yeah, but if you were 20 again, you WOULDN'T be tired of life.

[@johndow5599]

+MetrazolElectricity "Depression"? How did we get to depression?

[@johndow5599]

+MetrazolElectricity "Tired of life" I take he meant literally. I don't see this as a sign of depression. He's just old, living is taxing now, and he's got nothing to look forward to. Naturally, he's tired of it. But. Imagine he's 20 again, oh-la-la. He can get it up again, and is full of desires. I doubt he'd be spending a lot of time on Charlie Rose show bitching about being "tired of life", LOL.

[@SportBrotha]

+john dow His wife died and it destroyed him. He was probably more depressed and bored than physically tired.

[@jolorulz]

+john dow I would add also, I think he meant that, knowing what he knew at that point and felt then as well, if he could choose to be 20 years younger, he wouldn't choose so because he probably thinks it wouldn't matter as much. Just my two cents.

[@johndow5599]

+jolorulz Yea, definitely. But... Like Montaigne said, "appetite comes to me while eating", lol. My experience strongly suggests it is so. How we feel tends to be very shaky, temporary, influenced by a lot of stuff we're not even aware of, such as weather, health, and general state of mind at the moment. That's why the saints of the old avoided temptation. They knew that direct exposure may affect them in unwanted ways.

[@sundevilification]

Sad but true. RIP Mr. Buckley.

[@EndoftheTownProductions]

Look at the sadness in his eyes at 0:28.

[@WintersWar]

It's a tremendous heavy moment watching WFB saying these things. Like time stops.

[@writereducator]

You are right. Natural virtues can be acquired by anyone who wants them by doing the right things over and over until they become habits.

[@Upstreamprovider]

Well put, sir!

[@poobum9857]

wow a moment of real truth !! i was shocked by what he said about being tired !!

[@-KillaWatt-]

“Living too long takes more than time" - Charles Bukowski

[@crazygenx2539]

Buckley was a pompous Yalie. Yet I miss him, his mind, and the world that found him of import.

[@marissadower-morgan3313]

he was being open and honest ..No Filter .That takes guts

[@spins321]

There's a bit of a difference in being a warrior for a cause and being a person who just spreads hate and disconcernation. I approached the thought posed by greenrate about how unspectacular Buckleys statements regarding the lack of fervor for the rest of his life from that aspect. I didn't know Mr. Buckley (as you don't know me), and I commented on what I would feel knowing what I know of him from his public life. It is a surprsing comment from someone of his ilk, and my attempt to reason it.

[@nunyabiznis817]

Charlie "I'll ask question because I have to, but I don't really want to hear your answers" Rose.

[@DeefexNYC]

I've yet so much to experience. Dreams I still haven't woken from.

[@alberttatlock5237]

Death should be Embraced and celebrated, it is the main purpose of life. Without life we have no death to look forward to, the only thing worse than living is knowing there'll be no death at the end

[@Robertbrucelockhart]

Bill was one of my great heroes, but he was also for me the living testimony of the fact that really smart people, really good people, even really wise people, can be very wrong about so many things.

[@gregevans1502]

Well said Robert L, and I agree with you. I didn't agree with Buckley on all of his positions, but he was articulate, educated, and passionate. I still vividly remember watching Buckley crushing liberal dimwits in back and forth exchanges after a speech at U.C. Berkeley. It was like watching a lion toying with mice. Vaya con Dios, Mr. Buckley.

[@kendallevans4079]

Agree. Never agreed with his politics BUT I so admired him for his erudition, education, and snobbery YUP! I think being a erudite snob is under rated! I consider myself a snob and the up-side is...It FORCES me to be better, smarted, more well read, traveled etc....I love being a snob. if i roast in hell, well...I'll have lots of space

[@jackl3586]

VONNEGUT SUPPOSEDLY WROTE THAT BUCKLEY'S SMIRK SUGGESTED THE RICH WILL ALWAYS B E BETTER OFF THAN THE POOR.

[@jadezee6316]

@@gregevans1502 maybe you ought to watch chomsky crushing the life out of buckley in their debate......but thats not the point...the point is idiots like you see only with your bias...and just how would you know who was intelligent or not?..lol

[@gregevans1502]

@@jadezee6316 LOL...as if Chomsky's irrelevant, unicorn riding idealistic socialist posturing counts as genuine intellect. What a typically sour, ugly, ad hominem comment from a left wing ideologue. Be gone

[@indubitablydoug]

A conservative I can disagree with and respect.

[@gaysportsfanatic]

so content at the end of life... we should all be

[@billeudy8481]

I know precisely how he feels.

[@carlhuck7721]

didn't Charlie Rose have to quit in the great grabastic Me-Too epoc?

[@KonstantKool]

Would be nice if someone had the wit to post date/time of such interviews...

[@MarkSeibold]

Someone above wrote that it was recorded on May 7, 2007 and that Buckley died. On February 27th 2008. I hope I got those numbers right because I can't go backwards here to check and write it again...

[@AhmadEdinHodzic]

You get fed of everything it gets boring that's why death is really a beautiful thing.

[@1898Paul]

Lenbenhear- I couldn't agree more .....

[@vivascargills1084]

i knew Bill --my politics were completely opposite from his I mean red--I liked him very much and I miss him

[@d0101d]

dark, sad, the void.

[@lictor313]

yes the national review NOW certainly fits that description... your point?

[@muppet253]

that great shark like smile to the end. we are losing one of the greatest generations of thinkers and writers and humanity will be poorer for it. We are doomed

[@RoboSlater]

In this video, Buckley has Bell's Palsy, a paralysis of the left side of the face. And those familiar with it can tell he's had it awhile to the extent it was unlikely to get better.

[@chm9935]

Smoker too i think.

[@harryantino]

One has to remember that Mr Buckley would not have viewed death in the same way a lot of our largely Agnostic or Atheist society would have done. In Christianity death is a transformation not an end.

[@keithford245]

Yes, this world (i.e. human cruelty) is so difficult.

[@paulpellicci]

goodbye Mr. Buckley

[@Bes1987]

I couldn't agree with you more and essentially, I think, that was precisely the point that Buckley was trying to make. It would be equivalent to staying in high school more than four years and even the fourth year becomes a bore.. you simply want to move on.

[@lictor313]

@SvendBosanvovski it actually started with Woodrow Wilson... but reached really grandiose proportions in the Clinton era... and perhaps Bush 1

[@mvtorresi]

This is similar to what Bukowski felt in his old age. Hanging on to give pleasure to your loved ones is a good enough reason.

[@thomaswilliams8531]

Same.

[@nunyabiznis817]

Well I don't know if things are different today than back in 2007. But today they have a contract called a "DNR Order" (Do Not Resuscitate Order). Meaning, you don't want doctors and medical personnel to save your life if you are in a life-threatening situation in which only medical attention can save you. Hospitals today try to push family members into singing one for their elderly loved-ones. This is called "advanced, modern healthcare". But don't get me wrong, I would not want to be resuscitated because I am not afraid to die and life in this world is a bore and a literal pain in the ass. 60+ years of living is enough for me and I am not looking forwards to 70s and 80's or, god forbid, beyond. Very few people have healthy, painless lives past 65 or 70. Increasing the life-expectancy rates is a complete disservice to society - it only benefits the medical community and those who are afraid of death.

[@ransomcoates546]

He’s clearly clinically depressed. The give away is that he says not a word about his religion, which always was of great importance to him. His literary hero Evelyn Waugh would have said something like ‘I prefer life in Heaven to that on earth.’

[@evanfinch4987]

i think if this comment sometimes and how ridiculous it is

[@ransomcoates546]

@@evanfinch4987 ‘If’ is quite ridiculous. Do you know English vocabulary? Or anything about Wm. Buckley?

[@MichaelBoryAlis]

To be or not to be, that is the question - Hamlet

[@JackSmith-kf5hx]

This guy has a scary joker grin.

[@mortensenegbert6619]

+Jack Smith It's one of his greatest charms. That and the mischievous glint in his eyes.

[@JackSmith-kf5hx]

His charm is being a troll?

[@mortensenegbert6619]

+Jack Smith I guess, in the sense that he looks like one because he's in his 80's. But your first description was better. He's an erudite Tory Joker.

[@jadezee6316]

has there ever been a more nauseating person than charlie rose

[@katicafranic517]

2 years this is from 2006

[@johndow5599]

When did this conversation take place?

[@QED_]

This . . . is a little surprising to me. The conclusions Buckley makes, I have no problem with. I share them. But his reasons seem to me unworthy. To say that one hasn't the energy or the resources to continue is one thing. But to say that there is nothing worth continuing for . . . reveals a poverty of emotional imagination.

[@Upstreamprovider]

I endorse your comment, even if I am at the other end of the spectrum to most of this man's arguments. However, I do not believe we are doomed: it will always continue to be even when we are not, for there was no beginning and therefore is no end, despite what the Bible or Science says.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Shoutout to eugenics

[@burlingtonbill1]

anyone know the original airdate of this clip? And how long it was before he died? (which was 2-27-08)

[@zardozyo]

Please state the date of broadcast.

[@MarkSeibold]

Someone above wrote that it was taped May 7, 2007 and that Buckley died on February 27th 2008.

[@piccanninni]

What year was this filmed? He died 2008 so im guessing how old he was in this interview.

[@syzyphyz]

Of course it would be nice to keep the body, memory, and quick wit of a 20-something year old, however even all of that is not much in the place of the knowledge and wisdom one gains over a lifetime and even without physical age i intuit the notion that a sense of tiredness of living would still persist.

[@hellinterface6721]

I don't gather that from this. I find that what he's saying is the " knowledge and wisdom one gains over a lifetime and even without physical age" is useless and meaningless regardless of whether "you have done it or not"... What he was saying before the interrogator was hounding him about his funeral and what music he will be playing is the crux of this interview.

[@brianw.5230]

How long did he live after this interview was filmed?

[@MarkSeibold]

Someone above wrote that it was recorded on May 7, 2007 and that he died on February 27, 2008.

[@michaeldoyle6702]

Charlie, Bill lost his wife recently; that was the important issue here. Buckley was clearly clinically depressed.

[@xleax6479]

Not clearly depressed. Maybe he was just ready to meet his Maker?

[@GUITARTIME2024]

+xleax or both. no one wants to be the guy that hung around too long.

[@thebullybuffalo]

Michael Doyle that doesn't prove anything. His depression is only reflective of the fact that he no longer desires to live

[@michaeldoyle6702]

I was wrong to say he was clinically depressed. He clearly was functioning at a high level. Maybe life just didnt offer the pleasures it once did and as a Catholic, Buckley was looking forward to the promises of his faith.

[@MarkSeibold]

How many of you here in the comments are even 50 or 60 yet? Have any of you accomplish everything you wanted to in life yet? Say, have you designed and built your own home, maintained it for 20 years. Have you spoken on national radio where millions of people were listening to you talk? Have you had your science technical awarded and published art work featured in NASA websites, and other noted famous venues? Have you been invited to lecture many times to students in schools and universities, or in a large public venue? Now tell me, how many of you here are over 80 years of age yet?

[@thewanderingamerican5412]

Does anyone know what year this is from?

[@Upstreamprovider]

Since a lot of "virtue" somehow involves self-sacrifice it seems quite at odds with the "modern" way of living, especially in the corrupted (IMHO) form of individualism which seems to pervade it. Hence the conflict between modernism and - idealised - previous thought structures like Islam and Christianity (although they make the mistake of projecting a "Golden Age" in the past). It's a problem, no doubt about it.

[@theamericano33333]

@greenrate do you think we your mind or your emotions i think with my mind

[@LenHummelChannel]

Looking through some of these "comments" it is astounding how ugly and malicious some people have become in this ""modern"" era.

[@Scottrchrdsn]

He was an interesting guy.

[@cryptohunt2552]

The end of the gentle msn knterviwers and commentators.

[@Upstreamprovider]

Only the ego in me would dream of claiming to know the cause of virtue; I wish it were true! I would hazard that it comes from good upbringing, which is predicated on a stable, undisturbed "family". I would further hazard that it in some way stems from the process which is termed "the study of philosophy" (showing my classical leanings) and - possibly (and I'm not being facetious here) - "God". It is summed up by what is termed the Golden Rule, which is not culture specific. It is not political

[@bogglerful]

Interesting

[@DJ--ALLDAY]

😳Interesting idealism.. Interesting indeed

[@writereducator]

So please explain the cause of virtue.

[@Cryptic0013]

It's tough to hear anyone say they're tired of life, but I imagine that when William F Buckley, of all people, is losing his vocabulary, that's God's way of saying the ride's over.

[@marbury2403]

Or maybe all his prestige and fame was basically a result of being born who he was born as. And that's a crushing conclusion on a man to draw at the end.

[@lictor313]

@SvendBosanvovski since WW1...

[@Leibo07]

those eyes ... Buckley missed out on a career in horror flicks.

[@1898Paul]

Smart man.. my political opinion is a lot different but I still think he was great.

[@sgtmcwallace]

he has that same smile even in this afe, creepy

[@WintersWar]

notice when WFB appears, everyone starts using 5 dollar words, be it here in the comment section, or wherever...but they can't touch Buckley.

[@muppet253]

Though I am in no way religious, or wing, I always felt that Mr Buckley was a far more intelligent writer, and thinker than the lot that passes for the right in this age. Gone also are some of the left's great minds, Vonnegut, and Thompson, for examples. What I meant by the doomed comment is that we seem to be lacking critical thinkers these days, and I mean anyone under 40. I am sure there are a few, but in my opinion not near as many as baby boomers (people 50 and up). that may be demographics

[@ileenrandle3558]

Buckley reaping