Sunday, January 8, 2012

Tony Blankley, Burkean Conservative, Succumbs to Stomach Cancer, Aged 63

He had just phoned a good one in on the Acela under the influence of a Bloody Mary at 9 in the morning last November, and famously kept peacocks, sometimes appearing to dress like one by American standards. Of course "American standards" is an oxymoron, but he became one of us still after the war when his parents moved here from England.

He enjoyed himself, as a conservative should, as even the Good Book teaches:

Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.


May he rest in peace.

Obituary here.