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struggle4progress

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7. He Could Not Stop for Death

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 10:15 PM

Aug 2025

Lev Grossman
May 18, 2009 12:00 AM EDT

... Buckley ... smoked, drank, ... and took pills by the fistful ... He abominated seat belts, and in his later life he developed the unnerving habit of urinating out the open doors of cars going at full speed ...

William’s ... achievements ... were offset by impatience, impulsiveness, arrogance, gluttony and criminal thoughtlessness. He walked out of Christopher’s Yale graduation because he was bored. He blew off his sister’s funeral to accept an award ...

https://time.com/archive/6688383/he-could-not-stop-for-death/

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"... [T]he USPS is issuing stamps featuring a guy who wrote an opinion piece defending Jim Crow ..." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 OP

When is the Robert Welch stamp coming out? Ocelot II Aug 2025 #1

"Maybe a George Wallace stamp?" J_William_Ryan Aug 2025 #2

Use a sharpie dweller Aug 2025 #3

Drunk babbler, who convinced conservatives nobody could understand him struggle4progress Aug 2025 #4

I'll not be buying any of those. nt. 2naSalit Aug 2025 #5

Buckley was an evil piece of shit and as far from real intellectualism as possible JT45242 Aug 2025 #6

He Could Not Stop for Death struggle4progress Aug 2025 #7

The gop is two steps away from demanding a Hitler stamp and of course a t-rump stamp...luvs them Nazis... wcmagumba Aug 2025 #8

Perhaps Rush Limbaugh is on the list for a commemorative stamp under this administration andym Aug 2025 #9