Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour

Chris Clarke cclarke at faultline.org
Sun Sep 1 13:14:24 PDT 2002


on 9/1/02 12:52 PM, Doug Henwood at dhenwood at panix.com wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Of course he wasn't a thinker - he was a journalist! And I'm well
>> aware of his numerous hateful shortcomings. But like I said, he was
>> a great polemicist and funny as hell. Why oh why must the left
>> (which of course doesn't exist in the Coxian orthodoxy) ceaselessly
>> invoke all the familiar pieties?
>
> It's as if lefties (if they exist, that is) are afraid of being
> caught having an unorthodox thought, so they have to compensate by
> reciting the equivalent of the Nicene Creed.

I believe this is not an exclusive fieldmark of the left.

-- Chris Clarke | Editor, Faultline http://www.faultline.org | California's Environmental Magazine



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