Mencken on Yesterday's Election

HL Mencken, from Wikipedia

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."

At least we might have taken a fiscal step in the right direction. I'm not so wild about the temptation to regulate behavior more, whether that legislation comes from the left or the right. I'm not sure what's so difficult about the notion of SMALL government. Which brings up a SECOND Mencken quote tonight:

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

Oops

H.L. Mencken, from Wikipedia

Sometimes one has to be careful about following up on things that blog commenters say. Ed Sailland, for example, mentioned H.L. Mencken, being careful to note that he usually disagreed with the man. Instead of ignoring Ed and following up on sideswipe data as I was intending, I looked into Mencken quotes and, you guessed it, now y'all can expect to see a few in the weeks to come. For today:

"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

OTOH, you can feel fortunate that I don't feel compelled to duel with Chandra over Ghandi quotes. He keeps enough coming to keep me satisfied. As long as he doesn't start quoting Chandra Bose, we'll all be OK.