at the moment? as in now???
hmmm...
i don't quite agree, yet i do have to say that mencken was positively prescient when he wrote that....(around 1920 )
i think the 'moment' was much more contemporaneous....
(btw, i don't think that was particularly warm and 'feelish' of you to characterize someone [without benefit of historical perspective] to call (albeit using the words of mencken)....a moron.....seems like name calling to me
:)
imagine the foresight to predict the moronosity of the electorate and their leader FDR (so many times over!!)
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The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists, "uplifters", social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham. But his life was not defined by negativity. He was positively enthusiastic about to the writings of Twain and Conrad, the music of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and the victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay. |
