H.L Mencken This quote probably offers one of the best clues to the politics of H.L Mencken. Enjoy this post as it will be the last for a few days. It is a long weekend here in Australia and I am off winter

H.L Mencken This was one of the first Mencken quotes I came across and it remains one of my favourites. It was also, from memory, the meme that finally prompted me to start the I Fucking Love H.L Mencken

H.L Mencken H.L Mencken wrote some eerily prophetic things and this ranks among his greatest prophecies.    “The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely

H.L Mencken H.L Mencken was a man not afraid to speak his mind, and it made him somewhat of an unpopular figure at the time, but a lifetime later we find his candour refreshing and probably wish that there

H.L Mencken Mencken was not afraid to make a word up if he needed to. Here he invents the word 'demaslave.'    “The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches

H.L Mencken Another of my favourite Mencken quotes.    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. ... He is, more likely, one who likes his country

H.L Mencken This is one of my favourite Mencken quotes.    “Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens,

"A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one." H.L Mencken, from A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p17

I Fucking Love H.L Mencken Hi everyone As you may know from an earlier post I run a page called I Fucking Love H.L Mencken over on Facebook, and as the posts always tend to do well over there (300+ reach

This isn't the article I thought I would write next but after this experience I was inspired to put finger to keyboard. My daughter Charlie (6yo) is currently on holidays from indoctrination and one of

Hi everyone, my name is Cameron and I’m an anarchist from Sydney, Australia. I work six days a week as a General Assistant at a high school in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, a job which I happen to

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Hi Steemit, my name is Cameron and I'm anarchist from Australia. I run Facebook pages called Truth and Anarchy, Do You Even Anarchy, Bro? and I Fucking Love H.L Mencken. Trying Steemit out on the