NRO coming to town

If you have a spare thou lying around, you too can dine with William F. Buckley and the editors and publisher of The National Review next week. Here's the invitation getting prominent play online at the magazine's website:

Mr. William F. Buckley Jr.

cordially invites you to join him, the publisher, and the editors

for cocktails and dinner at the home of

Elisabeth and Cat Jagger Pollon

to celebrate and support National Review

and National Review Online

in Los Angeles on September 17, 2005, 6 to 9 p.m.

Please R.S.V.P.

Tim Wolff 212-679-7330, twolff@nationalreview.com,

or write to: National Review

215 Lexington Avenue , N.Y. , N.Y. 10016

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$1,000 per person

I wonder if Editor-at-Large Jonah Goldberg will be asked about his poor-taste, outrage-inducing mocking of New Orleans and his later apology.