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Ipecac · July 14, 1999, 01:58 AM

Jeff, you got that right. It seems like we only get one Mencken at a time; today's is, IMHO, Vin Suprynowicz, http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm

He dumps on the victim disarmers every bit as hard as ol' H.L., and is nearly as funny. Man, Mencken could write.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken

July 14, 1999, 01:58 AM	#2
Ipecac Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 1999 Posts: 440	Jeff, you got that right. It seems like we only get one Mencken at a time; today's is, IMHO, Vin Suprynowicz, http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vinyard.htm He dumps on the victim disarmers every bit as hard as ol' H.L., and is nearly as funny. Man, Mencken could write. ------------------ "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken