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[winterbadger]

A good piece by Christopher Buckley on why, having been a supporter of John McCain, he's endorsing Obama

My mother remembers his father as an enfant terrible at Yale (what she recalls of the president's father is perhaps best to gloss over...) The junior Mr Buckley seems to have msot of his father's wit and writing style, and perhaps a little less dedication to being a troublemaker sheerly for the joy of it.

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[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

A great story! Unfortunately, the next one is that he had to leave the National Review because of frothing hate mail received (even though his article didn't appear there).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired

Best quote from that one:

But there was one bright spot: To those who wrote me to demand, “Cancel my subscription,” I was able to quote the title of my father’s last book, a delicious compendium of his NR “Notes and Asides”: Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, though it seems somewhat a matter of debate how much frothing hatemail they actually received.

Given his feelings about the current conservative movement in the US, NR seems the wrong audience for him to be writing for anyway...