[lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video"

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>>
>Michael "Old Glory" Dawson:
>
>>And why are you here if it's such an unredeemed stink-hole?  Why don't you
>>return to Poland, that bastion of Enlightenment and the Beer Party?
>
>Question put to H.L. Mencken: "If you find so much that is unworthy of 
>reverence in the United States, why do you live here?"
>
>Mencken's answer: "Why do men go to zoos?"

This is one Mencken mot that doesn't bear close examination.  People *visit* 
zoos; they don't live in them.  This is no pedantic point as I've realized 
to my dismay that Mencken's acrid view of the US as a society mired in 
ignorance, piety and visciousness is more factual that I'd suspected.

The only rational choice is to clear out of this sump of stupidity.  
Unfortunately I seem to have the inertia of a character in a Beckett play or 
(if anyone remembers him) John Barth novel.  Just can't seem to get it 
together to say sayonara US, however much I despise the joint.  So I guess 
it's lifelong residence in a zoo for me!

Carl