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As seconds spent checking confirm, Buckley did repudiate incredibly stupid and destructive things that he wrote half a century ago, and incredibly stupid and destructive things that he did more recently. Far too late for any good, but he did it. He devoted his public life to an ideologic edifice, and began to publicly recognize it as a Halloween horror house (but for real) before he died. May we die better.
We all suffer from some delusions that lead us to do harm, even when we intend the opposite. Buckley suffered from more than his share.
We have a duty to seek, expose, and repair delusion. Buckley had Chomsky on TV once.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=BUCKLEY+CHOMSKY&search_type=
It consisted of Buckley talking, and Chomsky correcting him, for an hour. Buckley didn't shout over Chomsky, or turn off Chomsky's mic, or doctor the tape, or lie about what Chomsky said; that beats any right wing talk show today... and Buckley never brought Chomsky back on TV; that flunks.
Buckley: good friend and failed citizen.
May we seek the mote in our own eye, as well as exposing the beam in his.
Most importantly, may we find ways to persuade people to accept the truth, and even appreciate the truth, instead of denying it.

Worst thing about the show: the long voice overs in the season opening episodes. The "don't tell, always show" rule goes double for video.
Personally, I made allowances for the second season. Unlike Joss Whedon, the creator hadn't spent a decade developing years long plot arcs. So the writers screwed up a lot; the screwed up plot, procedure, character... I rewrote a lot of it as I watched. I deleted some occasions when characters violated their established nature.
Even so, the second season gave us multiple long arcs, including some (the unraveling story of her drugged double rape, the final and permanent parting with Duncan, the whole wretched Casablancas family) that began early in the first season. The second season had some superb episodes; it only needed editing.
The third season had strong points, and the network forced the writers away from them. I'd have liked a third season that dealt with the consequences of the neglected murders and... But, time to let go.
Veronica is not a pariah; her Buffyish high school graduation proved that. She just lives like one. For the most part, she charges other kids, who have far more money than she does, to help them (and not "to look up dirt on their parents"). Even for them, she sometimes drops the charge.
Duncan's interim girlfriend tells her, "You could have friends. People like you. But you scare them." Veronica says, "Then I'm doing something right." We may guess that she feels scared, and we can see reasons for that.
Like Buffy, Veronica rarely has any time to regain balance, often fails to appreciate her friends, and spends most of her life suffering from some degree of battle fatigue and PTS. Considering circumstances, that seems plausible. I often dislike her, but she stays interesting.
Veronica FBI sounds like one more female cop show.

"... if you come out of the first book (or the novella) thinking of Ender as morally superior to everyone else, I think you may have missed something."
So did Orson Scott Card.

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