c'mon! Buckley wasn't all bad. After all, without him there wouldn't have been the famous repartee with Gore Vidal (in 1968?). Other than that, however...
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Scanlan wrote: > > > > Mort Sahl once said that Buckley was the only person he knew who could > > seal an envelope by licking it after he put in the mailbox. > > Most people are aware of Buckley's shitty politics, but there is > something that always rankled me about him in light of his high culture > pretensions. In the early 1960s, his Starr Broadcasting company bought > the finest FM classical station in the country, WNCN in NY, and turned > it into an outlet for really stupid rock-and-roll. For that alone, he > deserves to burn in hell. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." -- John Benfield _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
