Damn! I Meant To Post This Yesterday, But I Forgot

[Ponca Dan]

Happy Birthday to my favorite American essayist of all time.


http://www.aei.org/publication/happy-137th-birthday-to-the-sage-of-baltimore-h-l-mencken/

 

[CowboyJD]

My favorite and second favorite Mencken quotes:

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

 

[CowboyJD]

And one for all the Trumpies...

As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

(Just kidding....mostly.)

 

[imprimis]

Happy Birthday to my favorite American essayist of all time.


http://www.aei.org/publication/happy-137th-birthday-to-the-sage-of-baltimore-h-l-mencken/

I was wondering if you remembered my birthday which was yesterday too.

 

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

"Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."

 

[Ponca Dan]

I was wondering if you remembered my birthday which was yesterday too.

If I had only known! You're my favorite voice on 24/7. Happy Belated Birthday!

 

[Ponca Dan]

My favorite and second favorite Mencken quotes:

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

I can't say I have a favorite saying, but here are 3 really good ones:

1). Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be watching.
2). A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
Sorry,JD, this one makes me think of you! (In a most loving way, of course):
3). Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.​

 

[windriverrange]

Love Mencken, have a small book of his quotes and they are as true now as they were then.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H.L. Mencken

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
H.L. Mencken

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
H.L. Mencken

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.
H.L. Mencken

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
H.L. Mencken

“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”


Here is a link for a slew of his quotes/thoughts.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7805.H_L_Mencken