tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6261376729346141843..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: They don't do vituperation the way they used toUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62628225163711569942013-09-19T08:42:20.930-07:002013-09-19T08:42:20.930-07:00http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October...http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2013/Sinaloa-Cartel/<br /><br />Mexers as new Italian-Americans but not in bad way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29526912464779774862013-09-19T08:13:54.219-07:002013-09-19T08:13:54.219-07:00"People today would have trouble placing Menc..."People today would have trouble placing Mencken on the political left-right spectrum." That is beacause Mencken was a reality based writer not really political at all. Reality is hyperdimentional not one dimentional like the left-right spectrum is.Dahindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52469293194107753502013-09-19T07:30:20.390-07:002013-09-19T07:30:20.390-07:00Reminds me of Dennis Miller going off on Pelosi, a...Reminds me of Dennis Miller going off on Pelosi, an increasingly outlandish series of charges capped off with 'and I guarantee you that woman sleeps upside down!" Pretty good stuff.<br /><br />http://youtu.be/69Qxni46x4Q?t=8mFredRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9864684477264037722013-09-18T21:46:52.423-07:002013-09-18T21:46:52.423-07:00Mencken says in his diaries that he has a distrust...Mencken says in his diaries that he has a distrust, even distaste, of "homos," as he called them; but he evinced no viturperative hatred of them there or elsewhere. He made gentle references to "Sapphic" women in his published writings. He played the field with females before and after his ill-starred marriage, as biographer Marian Rodgers makes clear, one of whom was a silent screen star.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70086174616634549522013-09-18T17:22:01.188-07:002013-09-18T17:22:01.188-07:00Duth Thing,
Until 30 years ago there never was su...Duth Thing,<br /><br />Until 30 years ago there never was such a thing as "a" homosexual, closeted or otherwise. As for Henry, I'm not aware of his having shtupped any men but, frankly, don't care if he did. If it was good enough for Plato, Socrates and Augustus it's good enough for Roy Cohn. By adopting the terminology and belief system of the Victimologists you grant them instant victory. <br /><br />Back to Mencken, I know a lot about him and again - though I couldn't care less if he did - I know of no evidence of his having had sexual experiences with men. <br /><br />As for his relationships with women, who the hell cares? It happens to be that he married, and before doing so had indicated as clearly as possible in those days without being pornographic that he had interest in women and was aware of the different things one might do with one and that in fact he did them (though he thought kissing was overrated).<br /><br />So Dutch Thing, don't go picking around Mencken. The man was as marvelous a human specimen as you're bound to have found on this earth and your dismissals are as ludicrous as your handle.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39146116122539192262013-09-18T11:40:35.517-07:002013-09-18T11:40:35.517-07:00A better description of Mencken: an irascible, clo...A better description of Mencken: an irascible, closeted homosexual. His vituperation against the presidents was popular until he ran up against FDR, whose own popularity trumped Mencken's spleen and changed the public perception of Mencken from witty gadfly to embittered spoilsport.Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61282250664501514652013-09-18T11:36:35.708-07:002013-09-18T11:36:35.708-07:00That's one of the juicy spots in Johnson's...That's one of the juicy spots in Johnson's <i>Modern Times</i>. I also like the related passage where novelist Thomas Wolfe is quoted as saying that whenever he spoke well of FDR to rich men, he caught holy ell; their boiled collars rolled up and exploded and their wives' pearl necklaces violently came apart and dropped pearls all over the yacht deck. (Or words to this effect.)Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78866686886837497382013-09-18T08:48:16.638-07:002013-09-18T08:48:16.638-07:00Mencken kind of mellowed in his opinion of Coolidg...Mencken kind of mellowed in his opinion of Coolidge later on and looked more kindly on his administration. People today would have trouble placing Mencken on the political left-right spectrum. He was basically a member of the pre-National Review Old Right which was more libertarian, more isolationist and less religious than today's right. Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2677741751899282042013-09-18T06:38:47.430-07:002013-09-18T06:38:47.430-07:00I only just noticed thanks to this post the straig...I only just noticed thanks to this post the straight line between Mencken and Hunter Thompson. E.g.:<br /><br />"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosones that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine."<br /><br />And in terms of the all-important quality of quantity, there's *plenty* more where that came from.slumber_jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29876891089051583482013-09-18T05:48:15.207-07:002013-09-18T05:48:15.207-07:00Steiner said...
So Stalin liked to say that "...Steiner said... <br />So Stalin liked to say that "quantity has a quality all its own"? Goes to show that the old Bolshie really had read his Hegel, who said it first.<br /><br />The Sec. of Defense sadi that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42915075604386587322013-09-18T05:47:09.632-07:002013-09-18T05:47:09.632-07:00"swollen-headed nitwit with a Messiah complex..."swollen-headed nitwit with a Messiah complex and the brain of a boy scout" This describes most liberals. I sit on the board of a non-profit that advocates for small farmers and the local ag movement. The only thing that is stopping the local ag movement from going mainstream, like the craft beer movement did, are all of the people with this complex that are part of it. BTW, H.L. Mencken is p-robably my all time favorite writer.Dahindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21310560140179466022013-09-18T04:43:51.221-07:002013-09-18T04:43:51.221-07:00Mencken couldn't write today. The entire coun...Mencken couldn't write today. The entire country could be characterized as booboisie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9125513689666372132013-09-17T22:32:32.172-07:002013-09-17T22:32:32.172-07:00Lefto-logic:
"We’re Right, Even If Science I...Lefto-logic:<br /><br />"We’re Right, Even If Science Is Wrong"<br /><br />http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/09/17/eu-climate-commish-were-right-even-if-science-is-wrong/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54061865370040201542013-09-17T22:31:25.825-07:002013-09-17T22:31:25.825-07:00I like the term "starry-eyed uplifter".I like the term "starry-eyed uplifter".Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230724707928518879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31908241427610352422013-09-17T21:37:11.046-07:002013-09-17T21:37:11.046-07:00This one is both hilarious and brilliant. It seem...This one is both hilarious and brilliant. It seems so absurd iit takes on a strange credibility:<br /><br />Senator William Borah of Idaho that he spent his time in his study cutting out paper dolls.MLKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25948874802536173912013-09-17T21:25:43.884-07:002013-09-17T21:25:43.884-07:00You boomers better start hiring some young people ...<i>You boomers better start hiring some young people to learn the business now or it's all going to come crashing down in 5-10 years.</i><br /><br />The people there weren't actually <i>doing</i> anything. These are baby boomer welfare programs. <br /><br />They take a two hour coffee break in the morning, a two hour lunch, and spend a couple hours doing the productivity equivalent of shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69386303772917411002013-09-17T19:42:06.439-07:002013-09-17T19:42:06.439-07:00So Stalin liked to say that "quantity has a q...So Stalin liked to say that "quantity has a quality all its own"? Goes to show that the old Bolshie really had read his Hegel, who said it first.Steinernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20899441670700629882013-09-17T19:29:57.529-07:002013-09-17T19:29:57.529-07:00FDR was a pathological liar, which turned out to b...FDR was a pathological liar, which turned out to be a political asset. The most insightful and entertaining biography by far is <a title="Before the Trumpet Young Franklin Roosevelt" href="http://www.amazon.com/Before-Trumpet-Young-Franklin-Roosevelt/dp/1568520085/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379471262&sr=1-1&keywords=before+the+trumpet+ward" rel="nofollow">Before the Trumpet Young Franklin Roosevelt</a>.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1541505067240175912013-09-17T19:17:04.828-07:002013-09-17T19:17:04.828-07:00Good God, you people.
The Frankfurt School invent...Good God, you people.<br /><br />The Frankfurt School invented Political Correctness precisely so as to shame all of you into submission and thereby do away with Vituperation once and for all.<br /><br />Is this really The Dark Enlightenment?<br /><br />Or are y'all just a bunch of poseurs?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58399556132936721772013-09-17T19:08:41.697-07:002013-09-17T19:08:41.697-07:00"OT, but look at the age distribution of the ..."OT, but look at the age distribution of the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting."<br /><br />You boomers better start hiring some young people to learn the business now or it's all going to come crashing down in 5-10 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32449648058944613702013-09-17T18:57:01.084-07:002013-09-17T18:57:01.084-07:00
Comedy has today reached its nadir, purely becaus...<br />Comedy has today reached its nadir, purely because when there are no standards, no boundaries, no nationally shared cultural conventions - except for the forced-obligatory avoidance of offense to sacred cow groups, nothing can really be sent-up or lampooned. This is the consequence of the ascent to power of progressive radical Left, whose humorless commissar-enforcers have now become The Man. Thus under our nouveau-NKVD nothing is funny because nothing can be funny.Auntie Analoguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69419618567760400102013-09-17T18:49:27.703-07:002013-09-17T18:49:27.703-07:00Every time the weenies start complaining about neg...Every time the weenies start complaining about negative campaigning, I just link them to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI" rel="nofollow">this.</a><br /><br />"John Adams is a hideous hermaphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness or sensibility of a woman."<br /><br />"[Alexander] Hamilton is the creole bastard brat of a Scotch peddler."Beefy Levinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672190212311744730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87868402081371846552013-09-17T18:23:05.159-07:002013-09-17T18:23:05.159-07:00"quantity has a quality all its own"- G...."quantity has a quality all its own"- G.C. wrote that too in TYEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53062739117952738782013-09-17T18:00:52.332-07:002013-09-17T18:00:52.332-07:00Humor can also have a release valve after extreme ...Humor can also have a release valve after extreme tension. <br /><br />Shown in a double billing with LOVE AT FIRST BITE was BLACULA, and I don't believe I heard frightened response as hysterical as the screams heard during this one particular scene. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTnicxLkB8<br /><br />As the newly awakened vampire woman ran toward the camera in slow motion, the howls of Negresses in the theater grew louder and louder in direct proportion to the figure lunging toward the audience. When the vampire woman's face filled the screen, the Negresses in the theater were screaming their minds off like they were under some voodoo spell, but as soon as the scene ended, the theater was filled with loud laughter as relief. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92230777266081153872013-09-17T17:58:23.581-07:002013-09-17T17:58:23.581-07:00OT, but look at the age distribution of the victim...OT, but look at the age distribution of the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting.<br /><br />Michael Arnold, 59 <br />Martin Bodrog, 54 <br />Arthur Daniels, 51 <br />Sylvia Frasier, 53 <br />Kathleen Gaarde, 62 <br />John Roger Johnson, 73 <br />Mary Knight, 51 <br />Frank Kohler, 50<br />Vishnu Pandit, 61<br />Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46 <br />Gerald L. Read, 58 <br />Richard Michael Ridgell, 52Ex Submarine Officernoreply@blogger.com