Reply #68: There was something peculiarly reptilian about Buckley.

[MilesColtrane]

Maybe it was the languorous slouch combined with a strangely menacing glitter in the eyes, and when he smiled and showed those teeth... my god...

Browsing Wiki I came upon a passage about Komodo dragons that reminded me of Bill Buckley.

Komodo dragons have a tail as long as their body, as well as about 60 frequently-replaced serrated teeth that may be up to 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in length.
Their saliva is frequently blood-tinged, because their teeth are almost completely covered by gingival tissue that is naturally lacerated during feeding. This creates an ideal culture for the virulent bacteria that live in their mouths. It also has a long, yellow, deeply-forked tongue.

With Buckley, just as with a large venomous lizard, it would be easy to be lulled into a sense of safety by the apparent torpor.

Under his facade of phony accented gentility there was always the sense that you'd better not turn your back to him lest you find him clamping onto your neck, injecting poison into your carotid artery.

Buckley's poisonous ideas, in part, have created the chilling political climate we are in now.

Screw the paleocons, for they begat Reagan who begat Bush.