Sad Day For Conservatives Everywhere
I was hit with some sad news when I learned that William F. Buckley Jr. passed away this morning at the age of 82.
“All great biblical stories begin with Genesis,” George Will wrote in the National Review in 1980. “And before there was Ronald Reagan, there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind, and the spark in 1980 has become a conflagration.”
Great article about his life from the NY Times.
Today, the blandlife staff mourns a hero.
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He was a big proponent for the decriminalization of marijuana. Which is on the CA ballot this next year.
Here’s the paragraph about HIV positive people:
The merits of the argument aside, Mr. Buckley irrevocably proved that his brand of candor did not lend itself to public life when an Op-Ed article he wrote for The New York Times offered a partial cure for the AIDS epidemic: “Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm to prevent common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of homosexuals,” he wrote.
Awesome pic! In memoriam, I would like to share a quote
I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition,” he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. “I asked myself the other day, ‘Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?’ I couldn’t think of anyone.”