>I was reading the excerpt from the National Letters by Mencken in
>W.Kiernan's site (yank lefties love to refer to him, so I thought I'd
>see what the fuss was all about). Lemme get this straight - the great
>problem with America is...(drum roll)... that it lacks a properly
>careless, decadent, idle aristocracy!? Give me a break. Hey, all you
>had to do was ask Spain, and we would have been happy to send you ours,
>free of charge. As is, no returns allowed, though. Problem solved, two
>of them, in fact.
Yeah, Mencken was an asshole, but he was a damn fine polemical writer, and it sure would be nice to have someone around today who could denounce creationists and New Economy hypesters (today's Rotarians?) with his wit & vigor.
Doug