Sorry to criticize someone whose work I've enjoyed for many years. The emails can be described as two close friends lavishing praise on each other...again and again and again. Has the quality of someone sitting you down and putting their family photo album in your lap. How long does that remain interesting?
Wonderful series of letters, what kidz these dayz call email chains, with a hero of mine, here’s jealousy. To the Village Idiwitt, W.W.W.F.B.D right now, as the political world turns from democracy into Idiocracy is the question…In these apocalyptypto, dystopian reality we the living, it feels like the G.O.P. Crasher abducted U.S. Republicans from our House and turned it into a Duma…dumbing down so many of my friends and former idols in the still free press and Washington. Every time I still indulge my mourning jolt, pounding a pot of coffee…I cannot help but think Buck, if his eminence words of wisdom were still gracing his dear readers political world, our captain would have ordered his editors to fire away, blasting his mission statement across the bow, raising his pen pen and eyebrow, while commanding his legion of writers to raise your collective voices…yelling STOP the Trump train before it leads U.S. off the rails…and the elephant in the room turns our beloved party into a doomsday Trump cult…where the friends of our enemies become friends of the President of the United States! Oh, wait, “my friend Xi” is not just a punchline, as The Don has been palling around with foreign and domestic terrorists like Putin and Proud Boyz from day one…of his second coming into the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office…and not a word of condemnation or complaint, let alone self reflection from a N.R. Chief Editor when he calls a Presidential pardon “corrupt” and cackles about it…rather than the rich white trashman calling for the corrupt Don himself and everyone in his crime families arrest. It is as if N.R. now thinks the word STOP is just a sign to let the plebeians pass go and collect a two hundred dollar tariff related check and let The Don crime family go straight to the community chest and rob U.S. all blind because…the senior editors still like his policies, just not the psycho killer, megalomaniacs mean tweets…
Respectfully Jay, as I cannot fing believe we the people have a Presidente Duterte, I mean Trump, that literally orders his willing executioners to whack “‘suspected’ drug traffickers”…excuse me, ludicrously dubbed “‘narco’ ‘terrorists’”, therefore summary execution is okay…If your moral sentiments are bothered by the sentence to death…for convicted criminals…then summary executions of boat peoples…without trial…for the allegations of smuggling drugs…that President Duterte, I mean Trump claim…and his high class call girl at the White House briefing room peddle to the hordes of wasted dumbarses tuning in amd dropping out on FOXXXY T.V. are poisoning America! When is someone going to fight fire with fire and suggest FOXXXY News be taken out, I mean off the air! What’s the dead body count up to now…as one has to presume every single person sentenced to death by the psycho killer, anti Truth Neo white nationalist sociopath ordering the hits from the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office warranted…Otherwise it is just murder by moxy, as guilt by association now warrants Capital punishment from the all powerful Don Trump …and is a o k with the descendants carrying the mantle of Bucks legacy…so long as it is in international waters! W.T.F. Love you Jay, as much as my language torments, I mean is it tormented…as I truly, truly say to you, if Bill could rise from the dead, he would make like the General Bobby Knight a la Neil Reed and proverbially want to choke the autographed copy Preppy Handbook carrying Rich Lowry for forsaking his legacy and turning N.R. into a soft political porn mag spin-off of the most revolting American Greatness…making like Kevin Roberts lite…Glad you never hopped on the Trump train, and went with another Dispatch. GOD HELP U.S. I need a drink (I kid, I KID rock you don’t see the light of day for that kinda a cold one is for after dark). Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Have a Happy Thanksgiving. Peace through superior mental firepower
Sorry to criticize someone whose work I've enjoyed for many years. The emails can be described as two close friends lavishing praise on each other...again and again and again. Has the quality of someone sitting you down and putting their family photo album in your lap. How long does that remain interesting?
What a pair of mensches.
Had not seen that side of WFB though I was reliably informed it was there.
Who would have thunk saving these emails would provide so much joy down the road?
Thank you much and Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Nordlinger.
Thank you, GB!
Thank you: you're bringing him back to all of us.
Thank you so much.
Wonderful series of letters, what kidz these dayz call email chains, with a hero of mine, here’s jealousy. To the Village Idiwitt, W.W.W.F.B.D right now, as the political world turns from democracy into Idiocracy is the question…In these apocalyptypto, dystopian reality we the living, it feels like the G.O.P. Crasher abducted U.S. Republicans from our House and turned it into a Duma…dumbing down so many of my friends and former idols in the still free press and Washington. Every time I still indulge my mourning jolt, pounding a pot of coffee…I cannot help but think Buck, if his eminence words of wisdom were still gracing his dear readers political world, our captain would have ordered his editors to fire away, blasting his mission statement across the bow, raising his pen pen and eyebrow, while commanding his legion of writers to raise your collective voices…yelling STOP the Trump train before it leads U.S. off the rails…and the elephant in the room turns our beloved party into a doomsday Trump cult…where the friends of our enemies become friends of the President of the United States! Oh, wait, “my friend Xi” is not just a punchline, as The Don has been palling around with foreign and domestic terrorists like Putin and Proud Boyz from day one…of his second coming into the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office…and not a word of condemnation or complaint, let alone self reflection from a N.R. Chief Editor when he calls a Presidential pardon “corrupt” and cackles about it…rather than the rich white trashman calling for the corrupt Don himself and everyone in his crime families arrest. It is as if N.R. now thinks the word STOP is just a sign to let the plebeians pass go and collect a two hundred dollar tariff related check and let The Don crime family go straight to the community chest and rob U.S. all blind because…the senior editors still like his policies, just not the psycho killer, megalomaniacs mean tweets…
Respectfully Jay, as I cannot fing believe we the people have a Presidente Duterte, I mean Trump, that literally orders his willing executioners to whack “‘suspected’ drug traffickers”…excuse me, ludicrously dubbed “‘narco’ ‘terrorists’”, therefore summary execution is okay…If your moral sentiments are bothered by the sentence to death…for convicted criminals…then summary executions of boat peoples…without trial…for the allegations of smuggling drugs…that President Duterte, I mean Trump claim…and his high class call girl at the White House briefing room peddle to the hordes of wasted dumbarses tuning in amd dropping out on FOXXXY T.V. are poisoning America! When is someone going to fight fire with fire and suggest FOXXXY News be taken out, I mean off the air! What’s the dead body count up to now…as one has to presume every single person sentenced to death by the psycho killer, anti Truth Neo white nationalist sociopath ordering the hits from the Bada Bing, I mean Oval Office warranted…Otherwise it is just murder by moxy, as guilt by association now warrants Capital punishment from the all powerful Don Trump …and is a o k with the descendants carrying the mantle of Bucks legacy…so long as it is in international waters! W.T.F. Love you Jay, as much as my language torments, I mean is it tormented…as I truly, truly say to you, if Bill could rise from the dead, he would make like the General Bobby Knight a la Neil Reed and proverbially want to choke the autographed copy Preppy Handbook carrying Rich Lowry for forsaking his legacy and turning N.R. into a soft political porn mag spin-off of the most revolting American Greatness…making like Kevin Roberts lite…Glad you never hopped on the Trump train, and went with another Dispatch. GOD HELP U.S. I need a drink (I kid, I KID rock you don’t see the light of day for that kinda a cold one is for after dark). Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Have a Happy Thanksgiving. Peace through superior mental firepower
Happy Thanksgiving!
Always enjoy your work, Jay. This week's series recalling your correspondence with WFB? The chef's kiss!
Thx a ton, Bill.