core meanness

It’s Mencken anniversary time again.

H.L. Mencken was a bastard. He had a core meanness that showed itself in his writing and in his personal life. Without that meanness, though, his writing might never have gotten so startlingly good. Lots of people need lots of things to do what they do. Mencken simply needed to be hard.

He had other good points too. I’d start here if I were you. Then here.

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[Flying Rodent]

Pshaw, as if a visceral contempt for all humanity was somehow a bad thing.