[lbo-talk] Mencken

[heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk]

"There's also the option of being a detached, despairing, ironic critic
- a kind of left-wing Mencken."

Maybe I am falling into a trap, but I rather liked Menkcen, especially as
played by Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind (and what about Spencer Tracy as
Clarence Darrow?).

There is a more left wing, or at least radical, Mencken, in the marvelous
Ambrose Bierce, author of the Devil's Dictionary