Wiliam F Buckley dead at 82

A moment of silence, please, to mark the passing away of William F Buckley. The true maverick Conservative icon and intellectual died today in his Conecticut home. One wonders if Mod-Blog - a place where we try to see both sides of the issues - would have been possible without such a champion of the Right to balance the voices on the Left before the rise of Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio, and the Internet.