Showing posts with label HL Mencken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HL Mencken. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2020

Balder and Dash, or H.L. Mencken describes Warren Harding's command of written English.

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In Ohio, James Blaesing, the grandson of long-forgotten U.S. President Warren G. Harding (Blaesing's mother was presumed as the "lo...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

"The rise of the teetotal student," and what Mencken might say about it.

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H.L. Mencken once commented on teetotalism. Teetotalism does not make for human happiness; it makes for the dull, idiotic happiness of...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

House or no house, H. L. Mencken remains worthy of a moment's reflection while visiting Baltimore.

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The newspaperman, polemicist, linguist and all-around controversialist H. L. Mencken has been perhaps the single greatest influence on me...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

THE BEER BEAT: This humble plinth could be the spot where we memorialize the myriad victims of Prohibition.

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It is imperative for the future health and well-being of the municipality that we embrace historical consciousness, hence my contention t...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: The genuine meaning of ersatz, with a bonus Mencken digression.

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Counterfeit, phony, bogus ... ersatz . I used to be fond of saying that Miller Lite was ersatz beer, although strictly speaking, this i...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: For H. L. Mencken, tippling iconoclasts safeguarded us against pecksniffian teetotalers.

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The whole life of the inferior man, including especially his so-called thinking, is purely a biochemical process, and exactly comparable t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Mencken meets Manics: "A farrago of nonsense" ... because "the penalty of intelligence is (everlasting) oblivion."

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I awoke to the word "farrago" as it fought for release from my tortured conscience, no doubt an inevitable side effect of watc...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Trump loses the plot, but H. L. Mencken cures all.

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Photo credit. Rejoice, because 2016 provides Americans with the chance to prove wrong the Sage of Baltimore. “No one in this world, ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

After the Ides: Ron Whitehead and H. L. Mencken.

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On Fb, Ron Whitehead. No matter what I will forever stand against evil. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are evil. And I refuse to vote for the l...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: Should the Queen fail to rescue us, there's always H. L. Mencken.

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ON THE AVENUES: Should the Queen fail to rescue us, there's always H. L. Mencken. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Last autumn ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

"Alterations in speech one day might be used to predict development of Alzheimer’s."

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Those of us who were not among the Gipper's ideological brethren have found it all too easy to blithely shrug and say we knew it all alo...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Mencken on teetotalism and the pecksniffian, barnyard Romney.

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Words to remember as we trudge off to vote. Teetotalism does not make for human happiness; it makes for the dull, idiotic happiness of th...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Mittled's core platform, at a glance.

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To paraphrase Mencken, conservatism is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Saturday, December 25, 2010

"H.L. Mencken Speaks."

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The other seven parts of this marvelous interview can be found here : http://www.youtube.com/user/KaiserAl32#p/u . Why am I thinking about t...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Mencken: "He can shake and inflame these poor ignoramuses ... "

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H. L. Mencken on William Jennings Bryan, hero of the creationists, and lawyer for the prosecution in Dayton, Tennessee, at the Scopes Monkey...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

What's not to love and cherish about satire, irreverence and outright blasphemy?

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I've been cleaning "favorites" and discarding old, unused and broken links. It's been a while since I'd visited the hu...
Friday, October 09, 2009

A Mencken quote to greet the weekend.

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You just never know when a Mencken phrase will pop into your head. It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even th...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

REWIND: Heaven on their minds.

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(Originally posted on March 23, 2008) In his preface to “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion,” the book’s editor, Al Seckel, writes: There ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A random thought: After an evening's pints.

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After reading today's comments, especially Jon's ( at long last, recognition), I've come to an epiphany. I realize that it isn...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Monday's essential Mencken: "Homo Neanderthalensis" (1925) ... or, fundamentals of the Open Air Museum.

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H.L. Mencken -- the Sage of Baltimore -- wrote the following in the run-up to what came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, and it is un...
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