A big loss
Posted in Politics by RB on February 27th, 2008 Several times when I was home from college for Christmas or perhaps spring break I got a call that went something like this:
Hi. Can I speak with RB?
Speaking.
May I speak with you about your investments?
No.
OK.
Goodbye.
Finally one year I told him that I had no money to invest because I was a poor college student. He laughed and then said, “So I guess you don’t have a six figure salary or $50,000 in assets then, do you?” I never heard from him again. After a bit of thinking I realized that he must have received my name from some list, and there was only one way for him to make such a conclusion - I subscribed to National Review, and I had since my junior year of high school. Yes, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I was a strange kid. What kind of high schooler would read a magazine whose average reader earned over $100,000 in the early 1990’s?
I haven’t read NR for many years now, but I still have a fond respect for that publication and especially for its founder. William F. Buckley died this morning. The conservative and libertarian movements owe him a moment of silence; we would have no political voice if it were not for him. Our country could use more people like him - a man who could combine keen political insight with wit and an astounding vocabulary. May he enjoy his reunion with his wife and celebrate meeting his Creator.
